See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all that is
written about me will be fulfilled. For the Son of Man is about to be crucified
and die.
Satan fought once again against our Lord through the mouth of Simon, head of
his Church, as [he had formerly] through Eve. Let these things be far from
you, Lord. He said to him, Get behind me, Satan. "Have you not learned
the reason for my coming? Just as I became an infant and was placed in the
cradle, and gave joy to those born [of women], so too it is fitting that I go
down to Sheol, and console the dead, in the presence of those just ones, who
for ages have been waiting to see me. (Saint Ephrem's Commentary on Tatian's
Diatessaron: An English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709 with
Introduction and Notes [trans. Carmel McCarthy; Journal of Semitic Studies
Supplement 2; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2000], 214)
