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To: tejek who wrote (386079)	5/23/2008 10:06:28 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577024

It wasn't Turkey during the days of the Roman empire. There were no Turks there or anywhere in Anatolia at the time. And yes, the man in the street in Constantinople at the time did speak Greek. This was true of all of western Anatolia. Yes, I know that but they weren't necessarily Greeks. Actually western Anatolia had been exclusively ethnically and linguistically Greek for many centuries when Constantinople had been founded. I pointed this out in another post. But if you believe this isn't so, what were they ethnically? In the first century, the Apostle Paul crisscrossed western Anatolia and left a record of letters written to the churches he founded there .... all written in koine (or common) Greek. I've said before that Greek was used particularly by the upper/educated classes. In western Anatolia at this time, koine Greek was used by everyone. Thats why the letters and other books incorporated into the NT were wrtten in Greek. And the early Christians were not generally upper class folks, though some were.