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TVU 24
Minority reading:
NA 27 Matthew 3:15 avpokriqei.j de. o` VIhsou/j ei=pen pro.j auvto,n\ a;fej a;rti(
ou[twj ga.r pre,pon evsti.n h`mi/n plhrw/sai pa/san dikaiosu,nhnÅ to,te
avfi,hsin auvto,n Þ Å
Þ baptisqh/nai Sy-S, Sy-C
Þ et cum baptizaretur , lumen ingens circum fulsit de aqua, ita ut timerant
omnes qui advenrant a (4 th CE)
Þ et cum baptizaretur Iesus, lumen magnum fulgebat de aqua, ita ut timerant
omnes qui congregati erant g 1 (6 th CE)
Lacuna: D, Q
B: umlaut! (line 30 C, page 1237) avfi,hsin auvto,nÅ 16 baptisqei.j
"And when Jesus was being baptized a great light flashed from the water, so
that all who had gathered there were afraid."
Isho'dad of Merv's commentary of the Gospels:
"And straightway, as the Diatessaron testifies, a great light shone"
Ephrem's commentary on the Diatessaron, IV, 5 (Armenian. Syrial has lacuna):
"the splendour of the light which appeared on the water" (McCarthy, p. 85)
Romanos Melodos, First Hymn on the Epiphany, XVI.14.7-10:
kai. pu/r evn tw/| VIorda,nh| la,mpon
"and fire in the Jordan shining"
A similar form appears in several other Gospel harmonies, probably based on the
Diatessaron.
Justin(2 nd CE) in his "Dialogue with Trypho the Jew", 88:3:
kai. pu/r avnh,fqh evn tw/| VIorda,nh|
"and a fire was kindled in the Jordan"
Kerygma Pauli (2 nd /3 rd CE?): The unknown author of the pseudo-Cyprian treatise
De rebaptismate, who is perhaps from the third century, tells of a heretical
group which supported its own baptismal practice with the appearance of fire.
The author quotes (in ch. 17) from the apocryphal "Preachings of Paul" ("liber qui