. Christian herald and signs of our times . ssor Delitzsch believed thatChrist spoke a relatively pure Hebrew,the study of this language having beenrigidly taught in the schools of Palestine. The facts in the case, especially asseen in the words of the New Testamentother thanG reek,show thatthe Lordspoke anAramaicI a n guage,and of this1 a n g u ageagain aG a 1i I e isa branch ofthe northSemitic,and as sucha sistertongue 0 fthe HebrewLong be-fore the close of the Old Testament canon, the Ar-amaic had supplanted Hebrew in popularuse in Israel and had become the uni-versal l
. Christian herald and signs of our times . ssor Delitzsch believed thatChrist spoke a relatively pure Hebrew,the study of this language having beenrigidly taught in the schools of Palestine. The facts in the case, especially asseen in the words of the New Testamentother thanG reek,show thatthe Lordspoke anAramaicI a n guage,and of this1 a n g u ageagain aG a 1i I e isa branch ofthe northSemitic,and as sucha sistertongue 0 fthe HebrewLong be-fore the close of the Old Testament canon, the Ar-amaic had supplanted Hebrew in popularuse in Israel and had become the uni-versal language of trade and businessbetween the peoples of Syria and countriesfarther East. Alreadv a Jeremiah and an Ezekiel show the influence of this same is true of the later Psalms, Ec-clesiastes. and especially Ezra and Daniel,both of which contain portions written inthis dialect. During the Maccabean periodthe Aramaic had virtually supplanted He-brew in Israel. It is used in the Talmud,and its general use is reported by Philo, a. CHIEF STREET OF OSAKA. A NOTED BUDDHIST SHRINE. contemporary of St. Paul, and by the his-torian Joseplius, who calls it the languageof the fatherland. Only in one respect the old Hebrew-maintained its hold. It was the languageof the sacred writings of Israel and the offi-cial tongue of their Scriptures. In thesynagogues these books were read in theoriginal Hebrew, but were interpreted tothe people through Aramaic paraphrasescalled Targumim. Testimonies aboundand agree that such was the case regular-ly, so that the common people could nolonger understand the sacred tongue oftheir fathers and of their Scriptures. Thecurrent language of the day was accord-ingly the Aramaic, and this language be-yond any reasonable doubt was the tongueemployed by Christ in his discourses withhis disciples and w ith the people. TheHebrew as such was known well only tothe learned, but was not understood thor-oughly by the common people. The correctness of this con
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