Is There a Relationship between Origen & Arabic Diatessaron?

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Is There a Relationship between Origen & Arabic Diatessaron?

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For as no one could reasonably blame Jesus for not having admitted all His apostles to the high mountain, but only the three already mentioned, on the occasion of His transfiguration, when He was about to manifest the splendour which appeared in His garments, and the glory of Moses and Elias talking with Him, so none could reasonably object to the statements of the apostles, who introduce the appearance of Jesus after His resurrection as having been made not to all, but to those only whom He knew to have received eyes capable of seeing His resurrection. Ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ ἄν τις εὐκόλως ἐγκαλέσαι τῷ Ἰησοῦ μὴ παραλαμβάνοντι πάντας τοὺς ἀποστόλους εἰς τὸ ὑψηλὸν ὄρος ἀλλὰ μόνους τοὺς προειρημένους τρεῖς, ἡνίκα ἔμελλε μεταμορφοῦσθαι καὶ τὴν λαμπρότητα δεικνύναι τῶν ἱματίων ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὴν δόξαν Μωϋσέως καὶ Ἠλίου συλλαλούντων αὐτῷ, οὕτως οὖν οὐκ ἂν τοῖς ἀποστολικοῖς λόγοις μέμφοιτ' ἄν τις εὐλόγως εἰσάγουσιν ὦφθαι τὸν Ἰησοῦν μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν οὐ πᾶσιν, ἀλλ' οἷς οἶδεν ἀνειληφόσιν ὀφθαλμοὺς χωροῦντας ἰδεῖν τὴν ἀνάστασιν αὐτοῦ.[Origen Contra Celsum 2.65]

And after six days Jesus took Simon Cephas, and James, and John his brother, 3 and brought them up into a high mountain, the three of them only. And while they were praying, Jesus changed, and became after the fashion of another person; and his face shone like the sun, and his raiment was very white like the snow, and as the light of lightning, so that nothing on earth can whiten like it. And there appeared unto him Moses and Elijah talking to Jesus. And they thought that the time of his decease which was to be accomplished at Jerusalem was come. [Arabic Diatessaron 24.2 - 7]
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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