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To: crusty old prospector

“Go take your your beef to whomever translated the Book of Matthew from Hebrew to Greek.”

The oldest manuscripts of Matthew are in Greek, not Hebrew.

What evidence do you possess that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew?


158 posted on 12/26/2012 9:10:19 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (q\\)
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To: JCBreckenridge

>> “The oldest manuscripts of Matthew are in Greek, not Hebrew.” <<

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Complete nonsense! They were not likely translated into Greek until the late 3rd century. They had to have been written in Hebrew because the cost of educating the disciples, men of lower working class, in a foreign language was far beyond their means, and completely without purpose.


161 posted on 12/26/2012 9:27:02 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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