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• Thus, because the Greek and Latin Church Fathers are well known in the West today, many will assume that Greek and Latin were the earliest recorded writings of the Church Fathers, and hence the earliest languages used by the early believers.
• But, as we have seen through the writings of Eusebius, Syriac writings go even further back, and are earlier still than both Greek and Latin. And many of the earliest historians, the earliest believers, and the Church Fathers themselves, all wrote in Syriac.
• Once again, we are seeing a picture of how important Syriac is. To ignore Syriac, that all-important dialect of Aramaic used at the time of Jesus and the disciples, is to ignore the earliest and most important witness of the text of the New Testament.