The Syriac text has kipha for both “Peter” and “rock,” but “Peter” is preceded by the masculine verbal pronoun (hu) to show that kipha, meaning “Peter,” is masculine, whereas “rock” is preceded by the feminine demonstrative adjective (háde). So this second kipha, meaning “rock,” is feminine. Thus the Syriac version agrees with the original Greek text; and so the argument that, because, in the Aramaic (Syriac) Version, the same word kipha is applied to both Peter and the rock, they mean the same person is proved to be false.—Light on the Four Gospels from the Sinai Palimpsest, by Dr. Agnes Smith Lewis, pages 54, 55, of the 1913 Edition.

 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  November 1, 1966 p. 29

 

Light on the Four Gospels from the Sinai Palimpsest

The publication Lutheran Witness of March 17, 1964, page 15, says: “Research indicates . . . that it takes 27 years for the average member of our church body to help bring another person to Christ and membership in his Church. . . . During 1962, according to official statistics, 1741 of the 5500 parishes affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod did not gain a single adult by confirmation or confession of faith.”

 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  January 15, 1965 p. 63

 

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“It remained to Dr. A. H. Sayce, the Assyriologist, and Dr. William Wright, . . . to recover the first actual remains of the Hittites. In time these were found throughout western Asia Minor and modern Turkey. Sayce recorded the story of his finds in the book The Hittites, Story of a Forgotten Empire. In 1906, Dr. Hugo Winckler, excavating at Hoghos-Keui on the Halys River ninety miles east of Ankara, discovered the former capital and a treasure trove of inscriptions on clay tablets in cuneiform script and written in the Babylonian and Hittite languages. It took some time to decipher the Hittite tongue, but it was accomplished. . . .

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  May 1, 1961 p. 280

 

The Hittites Story of a Forgotten Empire