The Four Gospels

A small decorative knot-work or interlaced cross emblem is centered at the top of the text block. This type of "cross of glory" is common in Syriac manuscripts as a marker of a new section or a sacred beginning.

Of the second, these which are of the four are of the ten. This likely refers to the four Gospels and the "Ten Canons" of Eusebius, a 4th-century system used to cross-reference parallel passages across the four accounts. Therefore, one of them follows after the other in that which is known particularly to it, whether it belongs to the soul soul (Syriac: naphsha): referring here to the animating principle or the inner life itself or is outside of it. And nothing of it [is added] to the soul. For how is the one belonging to the soul known in it, while in another place the name of the "second" is given to this which is known of the soul? And this is the Word Word (Syriac: meltha): equivalent to the Greek "Logos," referring to Christ as the Divine Reason or Speech of God for the voices in which there is joy. There is one which is the soul of God. How then [can one come] from the Word when one among human beings turns toward it? It testifies to the times Or "seasons/periods" of the Word, and they are four. The Word, then, is perfect, just as the soul—which is invisible to human beings—is perfect; because through it they are known, and not [the other way around].

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