THE GOOD NEWS TRANSLATED INTO SYRIAC

 As the number of Syriac-speaking Christians increased in the second century, there arose a need for the good news to be translated into their tongue. Thus, it appears that Syriac, not Latin, was the first vernacular into which parts the Christian Greek Scriptures were translated. 

By about 170 C.E., the Syrian writer Tatian (c. 120-173 C.E) combined the four canonical Gospels and produced, in Greek or Syriac, the work commonly called the Diatessaron, a Greek word meaning "through [the] four [Gospels]. Later Ephraem the Syrian (c.310-373 C.E.) produced a commentary  on the Diatessaron, thus confirming that was in general use among Syrian Christians. 

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