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• Does it not make sense that Aramaic came first, that Aramaic was the language that Jesus and the disciples first preached in, and the language the gospels and letters of the New Testament were first written down in, and that Greek was translated from the Aramaic afterwards?
• That after all, was exactly the case with the writings of Josephus - Aramaic first, and then translated into Greek. It was a parallel to the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament - first in Hebrew, then translated into Greek.
• Should we really be surprised, therefore, if there is evidence that the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament came first, and Greek was shortly afterwards translated from it? As we shall see in our lessons on the Peshitta New Testament, that is exactly what we indeed find.