Some brief thoughts about dead languages: “The importance they have to us, and the Lord’s Holy Word!” Being impressed by a writing of Elder Claud Casey in 1942, and recently published by Elder Harold Hunt, as a word to His readers:

There are two languages, which the Lord has made foundational to both the Old Testament, and the New Testament: The ancient Hebrew and the Koine or common, Greek (A dialect of Greek developed by order of Alexander the Great, for good communications among his armies, which spoke various dialects of Greek).

The first of these dead languages; “The Ancient Hebrew,” is the language from which the Old Testament Scriptures were translated; and the Koine Greek, is the language from which the New Testament Scriptures were translated; and these two comprise the Authorized King James Bible of 1611, we have today.

If we stop and meditate that thought for a little while, we might see the real value of having the ability to fulfill God's commands to us concerning His Holy Word, in Prov. 30:6, Psa. 12:6,7 and Rev. 22:18, 19 He said don't change His Word; let them be as the words in Job 19:23-27 “graven with an iron pen, and lead in the Rock forever!”

The only way we can do that for sure my brethren and sisters, is by remaining firm to the Word of God; to the inspired truth of God, which He, by Divine purpose, has kept unchanged for us that we may worship Him in spirit and in truth.

These “dead languages,” are languages which the Lord has blessed to be our living fountain of His Holy Word, and our help today, tomorrow and always; Dead to a changing world but alive as the Words of the living truth of God, which shall not, nay, cannot be changed.