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• The Hebrew Old Testament, and the Aramaic New Testament. Together, those two Holy Languages make up a perfect whole. One is incomplete without the other. Jew without Gentile is incomplete. It was always within God’s plan and purpose for the Gentiles, that wild olive tree, to be grafted in to the hope of Israel, into the good olive tree. And just as Aramaic was the language of the Gentile nations surrounding Israel all throughout the Old Testament, so when we come to the New Testament, it makes perfect sense that Aramaic should be used as the language used to preach (once again) to the nations surrounding Israel.
• Hebrew is the Holy Language for Israel, and Aramaic is the Holy Language for the Gentiles. Whether Jew or Gentile, therefore, should we all not study Aramaic?