The Diatessaron of Tatian — Section 10

St. Cyril of Alexandria

1. 0. Greeting

1 [Arabic, p. 38] [[Matthew 6.24]] No man can serve two masters; and that because it is necessary that he hate one of them and love the other, and honour one of them and despise the 2 other. [[Matthew 6.25]] You cannot serve God and possessions. And because of this I say unto you, Be not anxious for yourselves, what you shall eat and what you shall drink; neither for your bodies, what you shall put on. Is not the life better than the food, and the body 3 than the raiment? [[Matthew 6.26]] Consider the birds of the heaven, which sow not, nor reap, nor store in barns; and yet your Father which is in heaven feeds them. Are you not 4 better than they? [[Matthew 6.27]] Who of you when he tries is able to add to his stature one 5 cubit? [[Luke 12.26]] If then you are not able for a small thing, why are you anxious about the 6, 7 rest? [[Matthew 6.28]] Consider the wild lily, how it grows, although it toils not, nor spins; [[Matthew 6.29]] and I say unto you that Solomon in the greatness of his glory was not clothed like one of 8 them. [[Matthew 6.30]] And if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow 9 is cast into the oven, how much more shall be unto you, O you of little faith! [[Matthew 6.31]] Be not anxious, so as to say, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, With 10 what shall we be clothed? [[Luke 12.29]] b Neither let your minds be perplexed in this: [[Matthew 6.32]] all these things the nations of the world seek; and your Father which is in heaven knows 11 your need of all these things. [[Matthew 6.33]] Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; 12 [Arabic, p. 39] and all these shall come to you as something additional for you. [[Matthew 6.34]] Be not anxious for the morrow; for the morrow shall be anxious for what belongs to it. Sufficient unto the day is its evil.

13 [[Matthew 7.1]] Judge not, that you be not judged: [[Luke 6.37]] b condemn not, that you be not condemned: 14 [[Luke 6.38]] forgive, and it shall be forgiven you: release, and you shall be released: give, that you may be given unto; with good measure, abundant, full, they shall thrust into your 15 bosoms. [[Mark 4.24]] b With what measure ye measure it shall be measured to you. See to it what ye hear: with what measure ye measure it shall be measured to you; and you 16 shall be given more. [[Mark 4.25]] I say unto those that hear, He that has shall be given unto; and he that has not, that which he regards as his shall be taken from him.

17 [[Luke 6.39]] And he spoke unto them a parable, Can a blind man haply guide a blind man? 18 shall they not both fall into a hollow? [[Luke 6.40]] A disciple is not better than his master; 19 every perfect man shall be as his master. [[Luke 6.41]] Why do you look at the mote which is in the eye of your brother, but considerest not the column that is in your own eye? 20 [[Luke 6.42]] Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, I will take out the mote from your eye; and the column which is in you