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• We see, therefore, that the history of the Church of the East is the history of both Aramaic, and the Aramaic New Testament. It is the history of Syriac, or Aramaic, Christianity. While Aramaic spread in the east under the direct command and knowledge of the disciples of Jesus, in the west, Aramaic was also spread - but the west soon replaced the Aramaic New Testament with first Greek, then the Latin New Testament, then other vernacular translations, before ending up with the hundreds of translations that we have in the west today.