Evangelion de Mepharreshe

[Paul Younan]

Well, you have a nasty little habit of grossly oversimplifying my arguments. Here is the fuller picture:

(1) We know from his biographer that Rabbula created his own translation from the Greek ("by the wisdom (!) of God that was in him (!) he translated the New Testament from Greek into Syriac because of its variations, exactly as it was.")

(2) We know that Rabbula supressed the Diatesseron (only in the areas under his control, of course) and replaced it with what he called the "Evangelion de Mepharreshe" ("....in all the churches a copy of the Evangelion de Mepharreshe shall be kept and read")

(3) We know that Old Scratch Mattai starts with "here starts the Evangelion de Mepharreshe" and that Old Scratch Yukhanan ends with "Is finished the Evangelion de Mepharreshe"

(4) We know that no Peshitta manuscripts (or any other manuscripts) are known by this name

(5) And, finally, we also know that Voobus proved that Rabbula did not quote from the Peshitta.....that he did not even use it.