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To: editor-surveyor
There is much reason to think so. The oldest mss. available are in Greek, Greek was very widely spoken even by the Romans, Paul's letters to Greeks are self evident.

And of course there was Cornelius, the Roman army officer who likely know Greek as well as Latin but not Hebrew.

52 posted on 07/02/2013 3:40:09 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: count-your-change

Hebrew had been the primary language of trade along the eastern metiterranian coast for 1000 years, since the kingdoms of David and Solomon.

Cornelius, being a Roman official, would have been fluent in the local languages. That was the key to the coheasion of the empire.

The existence of Greek MS is evidence only of the political drive to change Christianity into just another pagan religion. They actively cleansed the world of accurate MS in the original language.


54 posted on 07/03/2013 11:12:20 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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