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NASB | Revelation 21:6 Then He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 21:6 And He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give [water] from the fountain of the water of life without cost. [Is 55:1] |
Subject: Rev 21:6 |
Bible Note: Greetings AmO14! While the Peshitta is certainly a valuable textual tradition and worthy of study, the majority opinion of scholars is that it was translated from the Greek text about the 5th century. F. F. Bruce describes it's history this way: "About AD 170 an Assyrian Christian named Tatian turned the fourfold Gospel into a continuous narrative or 'Harmony of the Gospels,' which for long was the favourite if not the official form of the fourfold Gospel in the Assyrian Church. It was distinct from the four Gospels in the Old Syriac version. It is not certain whether Tatian originally composed his Harmony, usually known as the Diatessaron, in Greek or in Syriac; but as it seems to have been compiled at Rome its original language was probably Greek, and a fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron in Greek was discovered in the year 1933 at Dura-Europos on the Euphrates. At any rate, it was given to the Assyrian Christians in a Syriac form when Tatian returned home from Rome, and this Syriac Diatessaron remained the 'Authorised Version' of the Gospels for them until it was replaced by the Peshitta or 'simple' version in the fifth century." Some newer evidence pushes the date back some, but there is no evidence to suggest that the Peshitta was the original manuscripts and that the Greek was translated from them. There are early church fathers who claim that Matthew originally wrote in Hebrew (not Aramaic), but these claims are unclear at best. Did they mean his gospel was originally in Hebrew or did they mean that some other writing of his was written in Hebrew? Either way, there is no manuscript evidence of this writing. Even if he did write his gospel in Hebrew, this does not mean that all of the New Testament was originally written in something other than Greek. :-) p.s. - For anyone interested in the original manuscripts and early versions, here is a link to an interesting and informative page: http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/myredeemer/Evidencep9.html Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |