09-01-2004, 02:04 AM
Shlama Akhi Rob,
The issue is that the Peshitta dominated MOST of the time, and we are not at the "end" in order for us to declare victory for the Western Traditions....we don't know what the next 1,000 years hold for Christianity and it may very well be an Aramaic-dominated millenium....just like the first one and three centuries of the second one were.
Rob Wrote:The Calvinistic belief in God preserving his word coincides with the belief that he will intervene on large scales in order to do so. The issue then is not whether or not the Peshitta had a time of prominance, but rather that in the end the Western traditions dominated.
The issue is that the Peshitta dominated MOST of the time, and we are not at the "end" in order for us to declare victory for the Western Traditions....we don't know what the next 1,000 years hold for Christianity and it may very well be an Aramaic-dominated millenium....just like the first one and three centuries of the second one were.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan