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• But the most interesting fact of all, and one that is undeniably true, and established in history after history, is that the early history of Christianity spreading in the east is almost exclusively the history of Syriac Christianity, of the Aramaic New Testament spreading east, and Syriac and the Aramaic New Testament together being the vehicle for that early preaching of the Gospel.
• Whether it was Thomas the disciple arriving in India as early as A.D. 52 with the Aramaic New Testament, or whether it was that same Gospel being preached in Aramaic in China and Mongolia many centuries later, the fact is that Aramaic was what was preached.