“Because I figured that you would accept the word of one of your church fathers.”
And why would I do that? Why should we care about what the Fathers of the Church wrote?
“Papias CLEARLY states that Matthew was written in Hebrew.”
And? So what? Who cares? Do you? What books of the bible did he write? Any of them?
And why would I do that? Why should we care about what the Fathers of the Church wrote?
'WE'? I don't care. If you read upthread, Papias is hardly my first defense. But apparently, The Roman church listens to it's own fathers the same way it listens to the Word - Take what 'confirms' and throw out the rest. Frankly, I should have been expecting that.