In what tongue was either of the Testaments written?
The old Testament was written by Moses and the Prophets in the Hebrew tongue, because that was the language of the people of God, to whom especially it did belong. But the new Testament
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The old Testament was written by Moses and the Prophets in the Hebrew tongue, because that was the language of the people of God, to whom especially it did belong. But the new Testament
was written by the Euangelists and Apostles in the Greek tongue, because that language by reason of the Greeke Empire which went before the Romaine, was almost in vse among all nations, and was more fit for the spreading of the kingdome of Christ through the whole world. And therefore the Hebrew text in the old Testament and not the Greeke, and the Greeke text in the new is authenticall, and not the Latine or anie other.