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[quote-jon357]He spoke in Aramaic and people who were there (or claimed to be there) wrote about it (or orally gave their memories to those who wrote about it) in Greek, many years later.[/quote]
Yes, some claim that the idiomatic Greek of this letter is beyound Peter's competence.
But at this time Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek were used in Palestine so he well may have been acquainted with more than one language.
Just because Peter was not professionally trained scribe does not mean that he was unacquainted with Greek, in fact as a Galilean fisherman, he is in all likeihood did use it.
Even if he had not known it in the earliest days of the church he may have acquired it as an important aid to his apostolic ministry in the decades that intervened between then and his writings of 1 Peter.
You may be confused joun because the Greek in 1 Peter is good literary Greek and even though Peter could no doubt speak Greek, as so many of the Mediterranian world could, it is unlikely that he would write such polished Greek.
But it is at this point that Peters remark in 5:12 concerning Silas may be significant.
Here Peter claims that he wrote "with the help of" Silas.
If you really would have read through the Bible several times like you claim you would have known this.
It is well know that a secretary like Silas in those days often composed documents in good Greek for those who did not have the language facility to do so.
Thus in in 1 Peter Sila's Greek may be seen while in 2 Peter it may be Peters rough Greek that appears.
. You, however were talking about St Paul .
Oh joun STOP !
You said that St. Peter never met Jesus in person which is simply not true.
You were wrong.
You, however were talking about St Paul.
Bullshit, where did I ever mention St. Paul
It is now YOU who brought St. Paul into our debate
Lets stick to St Peter right now so not to confuse the issue.
You were trying to pretend that St Paul had met Jesus.
NO, now you are pretending that I was pretending Slippery
I know St. Paul and Jesus never met in person and never said they did.
Your bluster of word salad is an attempt to distract from what I said and not from what you are pretending I said.
Like Novi said, "trying to be logical with you is a waste of time."
Class dismissed for today as I have better things to do than teach a J.W. about the Holy Bible.
