History of the Peshitta
The Peshitta is the official Bible of the Church of the East . The name Peshitta in Aramaic means "Straight", in other words, the original and pure New Testament. The Peshitta is the only authentic and pure text which contains the books in the New Testament that were written in Aramaic , the Language of Mshikha (the Messiah) and His Disciples. In reference to the originality of the Peshitta, the words of His Holiness Mar Eshai Shimun , Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East, are summarized as follows: " With reference to....the originality of the Peshitta text, as the Patriarch and Head of the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of the East, we wish to state, that the Church of the East received the scriptures from the hands of the blessed Apostles themselves in the Aramaic original, the language spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and that the Peshitta is the text of the Church of the East which has come down from the Biblical times...
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