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• And in the case of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament, as we shall discuss in a number of other lessons, the Peshitta was preserved and protected. Shortly after the death of Jesus, it was copied into the Estrangela script and taken north of Israel. It was not only free from persecution by the Roman armies, but the Estrangela script does not look like the Ashuri script. It looks different. And therefore, even if the Romans were aware of it, they did not systematically destroy it. God’s Word, in the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament, survived the destruction of A.D. 70 by going north to Syria, and spreading eastwards - outside of the cruel persecutions of the Roman Empire in the Land of Israel. God’s guiding hand in history truly is a miracle. God’s Word will be preserved, regardless of what man may try to do.