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• Nevertheless, the “Church Fathers” are an important source of history, and the historical records they wrote are instructive for many reasons.
• Let us, therefore, examine the writings of the Church Fathers to see what they wrote, in the context of Aramaic, and specifically, the language in which the New Testament was given.
• One of the earliest and best source of information for the early history of the Christian Church, and how it spread, is Eusebius’ classic Ecclesiastical History.