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Was it ever translated into Greek or into another foreign
language? Why has not the Church preserved to us the
original text of the real Gospel, or its translation? If the
answer to these questions is in the negative, then we venture
to ask another series of questions of equal importance;
namely, why did these Jewish Apostles and Evangelists
write not in their own language but all of them in the Greek
language? Where did the fisherman Shimon Kipha (Simon
Peter), Yohannan (John), Ya'qub (James), and the
publican Mattai (Matthew) learn the Greek language in
order to write a series of holy Scriptures"? If you say the
"Holy Ghost taught them," you simply make yourselves
ridiculous. The Holy Ghost is not a teacher of grammar and
languages. It would require another Revelation to expound
the reason or wisdom why the Holy Ghost should make a
language? Why has not the Church preserved to us the
original text of the real Gospel, or its translation? If the
answer to these questions is in the negative, then we venture
to ask another series of questions of equal importance;
namely, why did these Jewish Apostles and Evangelists
write not in their own language but all of them in the Greek
language? Where did the fisherman Shimon Kipha (Simon
Peter), Yohannan (John), Ya'qub (James), and the
publican Mattai (Matthew) learn the Greek language in
order to write a series of holy Scriptures"? If you say the
"Holy Ghost taught them," you simply make yourselves
ridiculous. The Holy Ghost is not a teacher of grammar and
languages. It would require another Revelation to expound
the reason or wisdom why the Holy Ghost should make a