Vulgate rendering agrees with Peshitta

[Amatsyah]

I remember Catholic scholar Giuseppe Ricciotti having some things to say about Jerome and a handful of other early Fathers when I plumbed his "Life of Christ" book (posted June 03) for anything connecting the New Testament sources to Aramaic originality. Surprisingly, this Catholic scholar of the first half of the 20th century, for whatever reasons, was convinced that the original Matthew was in Aramaic, and this was mostly per his reading of Papias and Jerome. Imagine that! Either he knew something from where he stood in the Church (which I doubt, since he is plain about his view of oral Aramaic originality and Greek transciption for the rest of the NT), otherwise he somehow was able to honestly read the Fathers with the same type of interpretative eyes as Andrew Gabriel Roth, and conclude that the "Hebrew Dialect" did not refer to Hebrew itself, but specifically to Aramaic! Apparently, not the first Catholic scholar to do so!

~Ryan