10-04-2015, 03:32 AM
Who said anything about influencing the Peshitta's Text? It was/is the Peshitta Text. It couldn't be none other.
If you know anything about The Church of the East, Mar Elia III, The Peshitta Text, and what is witnessed to be stated in that manuscripts colophon, as recorded in Assemani's Bibliotecha, then you would know what Mar Elia III saw on The Altar in Bagdad in one of the Parishes of The Church of the East.
It was not any "old book" as you called it, but The Holy Gospels of The Peshitta Text. Mar Elia III knew well what it was, and those of The Church of the East who used it in their liturgy knew what it was too.
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If you know anything about The Church of the East, Mar Elia III, The Peshitta Text, and what is witnessed to be stated in that manuscripts colophon, as recorded in Assemani's Bibliotecha, then you would know what Mar Elia III saw on The Altar in Bagdad in one of the Parishes of The Church of the East.
It was not any "old book" as you called it, but The Holy Gospels of The Peshitta Text. Mar Elia III knew well what it was, and those of The Church of the East who used it in their liturgy knew what it was too.
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