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GREEK THE LANGUAGE OF CHRIST

AND HIS APOSTLES.

MORRISON AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,

PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

THE LANGUAGE OF CHRIST

AND HIS APOSTLES.

BY

ALEXANDER ROBERTS, D.D.,

PROFESSOR OF HUMANITY, ST. ANDREWS.

̔Ο οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ παρελεύσονται,
οἱ δὲ λόγοι Μου οὐ μὴ παρέλθωσι.

ST. MATT. xxiv. 35, etc.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET.

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PREFACE.

In this volume I make my final effort to convince the world that Greek was the language habitually made use of by Christ in His public teaching, and that, consequently, such a discourse as the Sermon on the Mount still remains to us in the language in which it was originally delivered. To make good this position has been the one great literary labour of my life. More than a quarter of a century has now passed away since the date of my first publication upon the subject. Up to this time, however, my endeavours have only been very partially successful. Encouragement, indeed, has not been wanting. A great scholar, happily still spared to us, referring to the first edition of my Discussions on the Gospels, said of it, "The result at which Mr. Roberts arrives is, that Christ spake for the most part in Greek, and only now and then in Aramaic,' and he establishes this conclusion by an amount of evidence which can hardly leave a doubt in the minds of unprejudiced readers" (Saturday Review, Nov. 29, 1862).

But the same periodical, though not the same writer, after the lapse of twenty years, speaks in

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