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• Again, if we examine the Greek word used by Eusebius in this passage, he uses the word “Hebrew arrangement” for “Hebrew language”. He is saying that the New Testament is being recorded according to how Jews locally, write and preserve it, in their own language. And, as we have seen from both Josephus and the New Testament itself, that local language was Aramaic.
• In other words, just as Josephus was at pains to point out, everything in Israel was spoken “in the language of their own country”, that is, in the dialect of Aramaic spoken in Israel.