II.
THE FRAGMENTS.
Note.—I have arranged those Fragments which have canonical parallels so as to correspond with the order of the Gospel according to Matthew, inserting others at those points where they might be most easily dovetailed into the canonical narrative. I have broken them up into verses for more convenient comparison with the canonical texts. In translating, my aim has been to be as literal as possible, short of being grossly unidiomatical[1]: otherwise the translation would have been much closer than it is to the phraseology of the Authorized Version.
Fragments from Epiphanius are indicated by (Ebionite), those from Jerome by (Nazarene), those from Codex Tischendorfianus III.—presumably taken from Jerome's translation—by (Nazarene?). A quotation of Origen's which seems to have been common to the Gospel according to Matthew and that of the 'Ebionites,' is not indicated as (Ebionite) because in writers before Epiphanius 'Ebionites' seems to include the Nazarenes, whom he is the first to mention under the latter name.
Fragments of the Gospel according to the Hebrews.
| [2]1. Preface. (Ebionite.) |
1. There was a certain man by name |
- ↑ In two passages I have however kept 'Lord' as the translation of Κύριε, where I should have liked 'Master' or 'Sir', in order not to weaken the parallelism between those passages and others in the canonical books.
- ↑ ✝ Epiphanius, Haer. xxx. 13: (1) Ἐγένετό τις ἀνὴρ ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦς, καὶ αὐτὸς ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα, ὃς ἐξελέξατο ἡμᾶς. (2) Καὶ ἐλθὼν εἰς Καφαρναοὺμ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν Σίμωνος τοῦ ἐπικληθέντος Πέτρου, καὶ ἀνοίξυς τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ εἶπε (3) Παρερχόμενος παρὰ τὴν λίμνην Τιβεριάδος ἐξελεξάμην Ἰωαννην καὶ Ἰάκωβον, υἱοὺς Ζεβεδαίυ,
