59Section X.

[1] [Arabic, p. 38] ⁷⁵³⁷⁵³    Matt. vi. 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.  ⁷⁵⁴⁷⁵⁴    Matt. vi. 25.Ye cannot serve God and possessions.  And because of this I say unto you, Be not anxious for yourselves,⁷⁵⁵⁷⁵⁵    Or, your souls; or, your lives. what ye shall eat and what ye shall drink; neither for your bodies, what ye shall put on.  Is not the life better than the food, and the body [3] than the raiment?  ⁷⁵⁶⁷⁵⁶    Matt. vi. 26.Consider the birds of the heaven, which sow not, nor reap, nor store in barns; and yet your Father which is in heaven feedeth them.  Are not ye [4] better than they?  ⁷⁵⁷⁷⁵⁷    Matt. vi. 27.Who of you when he trieth is able to add to his stature one [5] cubit?  ⁷⁵⁸⁷⁵⁸    Luke xii. 26.If then ye are not able for a small thing, why are ye anxious about the [6, 7] rest?  ⁷⁵⁹⁷⁵⁹    Matt. vi. 28.Consider the wild lily, how it grows, although it toils not, nor spins; ⁷⁶⁰⁷⁶⁰    Matt. vi. 29.and I say unto you that Solomon in the greatness of his glory was not clothed like one of [8] them.  ⁷⁶¹⁷⁶¹    Matt. vi. 30.And if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow [9] is cast⁷⁶²⁷⁶²    Lit. falleth (cf. Syriac). into the oven, how much more shall be unto you, O ye of little faith!  ⁷⁶³⁷⁶³    Matt. vi. 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?  ⁷⁶⁴⁷⁶⁴    Luke xii. 29b.Neither let your minds be perplexed in this:  ⁷⁶⁵⁷⁶⁵    Matt. vi. 32.all these things the nations of the world seek; and your Father which is in heaven knoweth [11] your need of all these things.  ⁷⁶⁶⁷⁶⁶    Matt. vi. 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.  ⁷⁶⁷⁷⁶⁷    Matt. vi. 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] ⁷⁶⁸⁷⁶⁸    Matt. vii. 1.Judge not, that ye be not judged:  ⁷⁶⁹⁷⁶⁹    Luke vi. 37b.condemn⁷⁷⁰⁷⁷⁰    The word means to contend successfully, but is used throughout by our translator in the sense of condemn. not, that ye be not condemned: [14] ⁷⁷¹⁷⁷¹    Luke vi. 38.forgive, and it shall be forgiven you:  release, and ye shall be released:  give, that ye may be given unto; with good measure, abundant, full, they shall thrust⁷⁷²⁷⁷²    This is the reading adopted by Ciasca in his Latin version.  The diacritical points in the Arabic text, as he has printed it (perhaps a misprint), give second person plural passive instead of third plural active. into your [15] bosoms.  ⁷⁷³⁷⁷³    Mark iv. 24b.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 ye [16] shall be given more.  ⁷⁷⁴⁷⁷⁴    Mark iv. 25.I say unto those that hear, He that hath shall be given unto; and he that hath not, that which he regards⁷⁷⁵⁷⁷⁵    cf. Luke viii. 18b.  Our translator uses the same word in § 50, 5=Luke xxiii. 8b; and in both cases it represents the same word in the Syriac versions. as his shall be taken from him.

[17] ⁷⁷⁶⁷⁷⁶    Luke vi. 39.And he spake unto them a parable, Can a blind man haply guide a blind man? [18] shall⁷⁷⁷⁷⁷⁷    Or, Do. they not both fall into a hollow?  ⁷⁷⁸⁷⁷⁸    Luke vi. 40.A disciple is not better than his master; [19] every perfect man shall be as his master.  ⁷⁷⁹⁷⁷⁹    Luke vi. 41.Why lookest thou at the mote which is in the eye of thy brother, but considerest not the column that is in thine own eye?  [20] ⁷⁸⁰⁷⁸⁰    Luke vi. 42.Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, I will take out the mote from thine eye; and the column which is in thine eye thou seest not?  Thou hypocrite, take out first the column from thine eye; and then shalt thou see to take out the mote from the eye of thy brother.

[21] ⁷⁸¹⁷⁸¹    Matt. vii. 6.Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and return and wound you.

[22] ⁷⁸²⁷⁸²    Luke xi. 5.And he said unto them, Who of you, that hath a friend, goeth to him at midnight, [23] and saith unto him, My friend, lend me three loaves; ⁷⁸³⁷⁸³    Luke xi. 6.for a friend hath come [24] to me from a journey, and I have nothing to offer to him:  ⁷⁸⁴⁷⁸⁴    Luke xi. 7.and that friend shall [Arabic, p. 40] answer him from within, and say unto him, Trouble me not; for the door is shut, and my children are with me in bed, and I cannot rise and give thee?  [25] ⁷⁸⁵⁷⁸⁵    Luke xi. 8.And verily I say unto you, If he will not give him because of friendship, yet because [26] of his importunity he will rise and give him what he seeketh.  ⁷⁸⁶⁷⁸⁶    Luke xi. 9.And I also say unto you, Ask, and ye shall be given unto; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be [27] opened unto you.  ⁷⁸⁷⁷⁸⁷    Luke xi. 10.Every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and [28] he that knocketh, it shall be opened to him.  ⁷⁸⁸⁷⁸⁸    Luke xi. 11.What father of you, shall his son ask for bread—will he, think you, give him a stone? ⁷⁸⁹⁷⁸⁹    The Arabic might also be rendered, What father of you whom his son asketh for bread, will (think you) give him a stone?  But as the Peshitta preserves the confused construction of the Greek, it is probably better to render as above.and if he ask of him a fish, will he, [29] think you, ⁷⁹⁰⁷⁹⁰    Luke xi. 12.instead of the fish give him a serpent? and if he ask him for an egg, will 60[30] he, think you, extend to him a scorpion?  ⁷⁹¹⁷⁹¹    Luke xi. 13.If ye then, although being evil, know the gifts which are good, and give them to your children, how much more shall your [31] Father which is in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?  ⁷⁹²⁷⁹²    Matt. vii. 12.Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them:  this is the law and the prophets.

[32] ⁷⁹³⁷⁹³    Matt. vii. 13.Enter⁷⁹⁴⁷⁹⁴    There is nothing about striving.  The verb is walaga, which means enter (cf. § 11, 48). ye by the narrow gate; for the wide gate and the broad way lead to destruction, [33] and many they be which go therein.  ⁷⁹⁵⁷⁹⁵    Matt. vii. 14.How narrow is the gate and straitened the way leading to life! and few be they that find it.

[34] ⁷⁹⁶⁷⁹⁶    Matt. vii. 15.Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s⁷⁹⁷⁷⁹⁷    Or, lambs’. clothing, while within [35] they are ravening wolves.  ⁷⁹⁸⁷⁹⁸    Matt. vii. 16a.But by their fruits ye shall know them.  ⁷⁹⁹⁷⁹⁹    Luke vi. 44.For every tree is known by its fruit.  For figs are not gathered⁸⁰⁰⁸⁰⁰    The verbs might be singular active, but not plural as in Syriac versions (cf., however, § 38, 43, note, end).  In the Borg. ms. the nouns are in the accusative. of thorns, neither are grapes plucked of [36] briers.  ⁸⁰¹⁸⁰¹    Matt. vii. 17.Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but the evil tree bringeth [37] [Arabic, p. 41] forth evil fruit.  ⁸⁰²⁸⁰²    Matt. vii. 18.The good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can the [38] evil tree bring forth good fruit.  ⁸⁰³⁸⁰³    Luke vi. 45.The good man from the good treasures that are in his heart bringeth forth good things; and the evil man from the evil treasures that are in his heart bringeth forth evil things:  and from the overflowings of the [39] heart the lips speak.  ⁸⁰⁴⁸⁰⁴    Matt. vii. 19.Every tree that beareth not good fruit is cut down and cast [40, 41] into the fire.  ⁸⁰⁵⁸⁰⁵    Matt. vii. 20.Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.  ⁸⁰⁶⁸⁰⁶    Matt. vii. 21.Not all that say unto me, My Lord, my Lord, shall enter the kingdom of the heavens; but he that doeth [42] the will of my Father which is in heaven.  ⁸⁰⁷⁸⁰⁷    Matt. vii. 22.Many shall say unto me in that day, My Lord, my Lord, did we not prophesy in thy name, and in thy name cast out [43] devils, and in thy name do many powers?  ⁸⁰⁸⁸⁰⁸    Matt. vii. 23.Then shall I say unto them, I never [44] knew you:  depart from me, ye servants of iniquity.  ⁸⁰⁹⁸⁰⁹    Luke vi. 47.Every man that cometh unto [45] me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to what he is like:  ⁸¹⁰⁸¹⁰    Luke vi. 48.he is like the wise man which built a house, and digged and went deep, and laid the [46] foundations on a rock:  ⁸¹¹⁸¹¹    Matt. vii. 25.and the rain came down, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and shook that house, and it fell not:  for its foundation was laid on [47] rocks.  ⁸¹²⁸¹²    Matt. vii. 26.And every one that heareth these my words, and doeth them not, is like [48] the foolish man which built his house on sand, without foundation:  ⁸¹³⁸¹³    Matt. vii. 27.and the rain descended, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house, and it fell:  and the fall of it was great.