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To: american colleen;JHavard
What was the most universal language of the time? Originally the Bible was in Greek, then translated to Latin because that was the most popularly understood language.

Say that again??????????????????????
1,846 posted on 04/07/2002 5:48:00 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE
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JHavard;american colleen;OLD REGGIE;ventana

Hello! What was the most universal language of the time?
Originally the Bible was in Greek, then translated to Latin because that was the most popularly understood language.

JH>Is that pretty well how it happened? JH

That would be a "no".

1838 posted on 4/7/02 6:15 PM Mountain by american colleen

Lassie:

The more correct question would be why did G-d have His Word
written in the most precise language in the world (koine Greek)?

Tehillim (Psalm) 119:105 Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

Chuck <truth@YeshuaHaMashiach>

1,848 posted on 04/07/2002 6:08:23 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012
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To: american Colleen; OLD REGGIE
What was the most universal language of the time?

That's easy - The trade language: Greek. The largest Empire on Earth was Egypt prior to it's conquer by Rome. But even the Egyptians learned to deal in Greek. It was the trade language of the world. Today it's equivalent is English.

2,006 posted on 04/08/2002 10:21:23 AM PDT by Havoc
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