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• The divine order of these empires in the Scriptures of Truth is therefore the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire, the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire. In later lessons, we shall examine each of these Empires in turn, and show that Aramaic was at the heart of them all, spoken by the everyday peoples of those mighty kingdoms.
• But having seen that Aramaic was spoken in Nebuchadnezzar’s day, that it was the official language of the Babylonian Empire, and that this whole section of Daniel the prophet was written in Aramaic, let us now jump to another fascinating event in the history of the Babylon empire.