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• But Eusebius continues:
• 1Euseb. 13:22 “These things [i.e. Eusebius writing his history] were done in the three hundred and fortieth year. I have inserted them here in their proper place, translated from the Syriac literally, and I hope to good purpose.”
• As late as the third and fourth century A.D., therefore, Eusebius is saying that earlier writings, going back to the time of Jesus, were written in Syriac.
• It makes perfect sense, therefore, for the Peshitta New Testament to have been written in Syriac, by the disciples of Jesus, at the time of Jesus. No other language would have been a more obvious choice.