atw: Re: OT Re: wheedling the needle
- From: "Colquhoun, Daryl" <daryl.colquhoun@xxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:58:18 +1000
> Just to be ultra-picky... from memory, Matthew was originally=20
> written in Aramaic... :)
Not exactly. The language spoken at the time of those events was Aramaic
but the gospel writers wrote their accounts in Greek, because that would
ensure a wider circulation at the time. So I stand by my claim that the
NT comes to us in Greek.
The gospel writers wrote somewhat after the events, and from memory,
Matthew was the latest, a century or more. So maybe the words really
were 'blessed are the cheesemakers' or 'blessed are they who fall in
syrup', or some of Erisa's suggestions.
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