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• But in those early days, before those heresies which Eusebius records had developed to become full-blown apostasy, Eusebius records that the Gospels were actually written in Syriac, and preserved by the Hebrews (i.e. by the Jewish converts, rather than by Greeks or other nations):
• 4Euseb. 22:8 “And he wrote of many other matters, which we have in part already mentioned, introducing the accounts in their appropriate places. And from the Syriac Gospel according to the Hebrews he quotes some passages in the Hebrew tongue, showing that he was a convert from the Hebrews, and he mentions other matters as taken from the unwritten tradition of the Jews.”