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• But Aramaic was the normal, everyday language. When the Romans came on the scene, the use of Aramaic only continued, because the citizens of the Roman Empire were not required or forced to learn Latin.
• Aramaic continued, then, as a spoken language amongst the ordinary people for centuries, both amongst the Biblical nations surrounding Israel, and the Jews themselves.
• Aramaic, therefore, is the backdrop through which we must see the Holy Scriptures, and especially the interactions between Israel and the nations in the pages of the Bible.