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ON CYS Reformed Presbyteria In what Language was Matthew's Gospel originally written,.. "Whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same Phil. 3 "Ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." THREE opinions have been broached and more or less widely entertained among Biblical scholars as to the original of the Gospel according to Matthew. One is, that the Greek text is the original. Another sets forth that this gospel was first written in Hebrew, or more accurately speaking, Syro-Chaldaic, the vernacular language of the inhabitants of Palestine in the days of the evangelist. The remaining one seeks to reconcile the two preceding views by assuming a double original-an inspired and independent gospel in each of the above languages. In weighing the testimony adduced in favor of these different opinions we will take them up in reverse order. I. The theory of a double original. This, though supported by such names as Bloomfield, Olshausen and Thiersch, who, accepting a Hebrew original, are still loth to part with the Greek, bears upon its face the stamp of a shift made to avoid a difficulty. True, instances of an author writing a work in two languages are not unknown. Josephus, for example, as he himself tells us, wrote his History of the Jewish Wars originally in Hebrew, and subsequently translated it into Greek. But such cases are not parallel to the one in question; for in all of them the second performance is essentially, and even formally, a translation of the first, whereas the theory under consideration is that Matthew wrote his gospel in two entirely independent forms, first in Hebrew, afterward in Greek, the latter not a translation of the former, and both alike inspired.. No satisfactory reason can be given why this particular book of Scripture should be signalized by a double original and a reduplicate inspiration. Other portions of the New Testament were primarily intended for Jews though designed also for Greeks. Why, then, should. there not be a double original for them as well as for the Gospel of Matthew? The other gospels were no less liable to omissions and interpolations than this. What special call, therefore, could there be 39X1 |
