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• Learning and mastering a new language, especially one as radically different as Greek when compared with Aramaic and the way that Aramaic works, is a learning process that takes not just years - but decades, even when an intelligent person applies themselves to the task. As we shall see in our lesson, What Does Josephus Say?, Josephus says that even after years of diligent study, he still could not even pronounce Greek properly and he still struggled with the language:
• “I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of the Greek language, although I have so long accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I cannot pronounce Greek with sufficient exactness…”