There is none [greater] among
those born of women. With regard to the prophets, he was more eminent than they,
although born of a woman. He is less than those born of the Spirit, concerning
whom the evangelist has said, To those who received him he gave them the
power to become sons of God. For John [preached] a baptism of repentance,
but these a baptism for the remission of sins. (Saint Ephrem's Commentary on
Tatian's Diatessaron: An English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709
with Introduction and Notes IX §14a [trans. Carmel McCarthy; Journal of
Semitic Studies Supplement 2; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2000], 161)
