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1 | A Hebrew Gospel of Matthew? | Matt 1:1 | kalos | 168825 | ||
A Hebrew Gospel of Matthew? 'Jehovah’s Witnesses falsely claim the gospel of Matthew was originally written in Hebrew. In doing so, JW’s openly trash the reliability of the Bible. 'YHWH "Yahweh" (The Tetragrammaton) Jehovah’s Witnesses are guilty of adding to the word of God by adding the divine name YHWH in the New Testament where it is never found in the original Greek manuscripts, and blamed the Bible as being corrupted. Rather than trashing their false doctrine, they trash the Bible! Their central premise is that Matthew was written in Hebrew but this is entirely false. 'The Wycliffe Bible commentary: Matthew, Pfeiffer, C. F. 'Composition and Date. The great frequency of citations and allusions to Matthew found in the Didache, Epistle of Barnabas, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and others attests its early composition and widespread use. The literary connections of this Gospel must be considered in its relations to the other Synoptics, and also to the statement of Papias that "Matthew wrote the words in the Hebrew dialect, and each one interpreted as he could" (Eusebius Ecclesiastical History 3.39). Many have explained Papias’ statement as referring to an Aramaic original from which our Greek Gospel is a translation. Yet our Greek text does not bear the marks of a translation, and the absence of any trace of an Aramaic original casts grave doubts upon this hypothesis.' 'The fathers, from Papias to Eusebius, who perpetuated the old tradition regarding the Hebrew Gospel, themselves rest their assertion on tradition, i. e., on reports that they had heard. And none of these fathers, not even Papias himself, was able to name a single person who had seen - not to say handled - this alleged Hebrew Matthew. The reports of the fathers regarding a Hebrew "Gospel" must be considered as hearsay, unsupported by a tangible fact. and contradicted by all the probabilities involved as well as by several uncontested facts.' [To read more go to: www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH-hebrew-matthew.htm]. |
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2 | A Hebrew Gospel of Matthew? | Matt 1:1 | srbaegon | 168826 | ||
Hello kalos, Interestingly, Messianic Jews (as claimed by the one I'm reading) also state that Matthew was first written in Hebrew, but there as well the report is based mostly on tradition. Steve |
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3 | A Hebrew Gospel of Matthew? | Matt 1:1 | kalos | 168830 | ||
Steve: Yes, the "Hebrew original" [of Matthew] claim is made by Messianic Jews as well as Jehovah's Witnesses. It is also a fact that a belief common to both Jehovah's Witnesses and Messianic Jews is that "unscrupulous men in the early church removed Jehovah's (YHWH's) name from all the copies of the Greek New Testament." (Note that I am not equating Messianic Jews with Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm merely pointing out that the two groups hold this belief in common.) The following article is from the website www.jwinfoline.com. ____________________ 'If the Watchtower had been consistent in their substituting "Jehovah" in place of "Kurios", the Greek word for Lord, then Philippians 2:9-11 should read in their Bible:...and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Jehovah, to the glory of God the Father.'' ____________________ 'Why is the name Jehovah missing from the New Testament? 'Does the Watchtower's theory foster doubt in the Bible's reliability? 'In part one we discussed the Watchtower's theory that unscrupulous men in the early church removed Jehovah's name from all the copies of the Greek New Testament. We discussed that to believe this theory one must deny Jehovah's sovereign ability to protect his word through the ages. Believing the Watchtower's theory would not result in faith in the New Testament but foster a doubt in its reliability. After all, if men were able to completely wipe out Jehovah's name from the New Testament, then what else did they remove or what did they add? Far from producing trust in the accuracy of the New Testament, the Watchtower's theory only opens the door to distrust and all kinds of abuse. As Christians, we maintain the accuracy of the entire Bible. We also trust the faithfulness of the God who produced his word and sovereignly protected it throughout the centuries.' To read more go to: www.jwinfoline.com Grace to you, Kalos |
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