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Hi i have some questions and comments but its quite long.
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Welcome Christian,

It is good to hear from new members of the forum and exchange ideas. I was quite puzzled by the idea of Paul writing to Roman Christians and others in Aramaic. Then I read Lamsa's comment that The Roman Christians were Jews who had become Christians, as is plain in chapters 1-3; they knew the laws of Moses , he quotes extensively from The Psalms in chapts. 2 and 3, and in 2:17,
Paul addresses his audience thus: "Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law..."
So Romans was written to Jews ; it was also written to Gentiles -
see 11:17.
Also consider 1 Cor. 10:1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Paul here refers to Israel as "our fathers", even though the nation was full of unbelievers. This is clearly a reference to a Jewish audience.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
4:7 ?? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
4:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Here he assumes a Jewish understanding of Passover in his audience (in Corinth !).

7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

The Corinthians Paul wrote certainly were familiar with the Jewish law , feasts and traditions as well as the OT scriptures, which Paul quotes extensively in 1 & 2 Cor., especially concerning the law of Moses and Israel's history.

Galatians, we know , was written to refute the Judaizers in the church. Gentiles don't normally Judaize.
It would seem that most , if not all the churches were founded , or at least very well represented by former Jews converted to Christ.

It is well established that Aramaic was the lingua franca of the semitic peoples of the middle east , including Asia Minor, from 6th cent. BC until AD 700 . at least. (See Paul's history of Aramaic, on this web site). Wherever the diaspora took them, The Jewish people took their Aramaic language and OT scriptures (or Aramaic Gospels)with them.
Paul would have had to write his native Aramaic to the churches and also had a translator (like Luke,who was Syrian who also knew Greek ) translate Aramaic to Greek.

Remember, the order of preaching was "to the Jew first..."
Every church founded and every epistle written would of necessity, by order of The King of kings, be to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

In the case of languages, the scripture must be written in Aramaic first, and also in Greek. This means an Aramaic original and a Greek translation, by Divine fiat.



Burkan b'Maran ,

Dave B
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