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To: Romulus

“Please don’t try to BS me and others on this thread. You are way out of your league.”

Keep it clean and skip the personal insults, O.K.? Good.

Luke certainly knew what was the Hebrew language and calls the language Paul used to speak to a crowd of Jews “Hebrew”. (Acts 21:40, 22:2)

“Hebrew was a language of scripture, study, and worship; it had not been a spoken language for centuries”.

Evidently not so since even Asian Jews in that crowd understood what Paul was saying.

Aramaic expressions seem common enough but no one confused Aramaic with Hebrew.


38 posted on 05/08/2012 11:29:52 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

The very fact that Luke notes Paul’s speaking in Hebrew shows what an extraordinary thing this was. It’s plain from the context that Paul chose Hebrew to demonstrate his Jewishness, speaking to fellow Jews in a private allocution that the tribune would be unable to follow. “Asia” here probably denotes Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia as opposed to Egypt, Greece, and the Western Mediterranean. Asian Jews are those least likely to have been assimilated into non-semitic cultures and languages.

All of which is beside the main point, which is liturgical orientation and what the Mass is.


40 posted on 05/08/2012 12:22:55 PM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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