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<h2>The Original Gospel of Matthew</h2>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Standford Rives, as a follow up to his acclaimed book, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MlPrYQ5srKEC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">Did Calvin Murder Servetus?</a>, has released the </span><img src="/images/stories/OGM/thumbnail_image vol 3 at createspace.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="thumbnail_image vol 3 at createspace" style="float: right;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Original Gospel of Matthew</em> (OGM) including Volume III <em>The Final Reconstruction of the Earliest Matthew</em>. The third volume is for devotions. It is built upon the proofs set forth in Volumes I (all variants) and II (scholarly studies in appendices).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">The OGM represents what the early church identified as the original work of Matthew in Hebrew. The Ebionites maintained custody at a library in Caesarea which Jerome was granted access to, and he did a complete translation around 390 AD. While that translation manuscript was lost, over 49 quotes of that OGM were made by the early patristic commentators including over 20 by Jerome. Rives has built his reconstruction of the OGM based upon those 49 quotes along with various Hebrew versions of Matthew that have portions which scholars contend are from the OGM. </span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"></span>Volume III -- The Final Reconstruction to use for Devotions</h2>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">The third volume is the culmination of the two prior volumes. It is 106 pages of color-coded text to identify the original variant sources in the best reconstruction yet of how Matthew's Gospel originally read. This OGM is now available as of February 2012 at this <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3760866">Create-Space store</a> or at this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Original-Gospel-Matthew-Reconstruction-Earliest/dp/146815656X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1329085985&amp;sr=8-4">AMAZON PURCHASING LINK</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">With permission, here is a <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>free online copy of volume 3</strong></span>--the "Final Reconstruction of the Earliest Matthew." Go to this <a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/original-gospel-of-matthewreconstructed.html">link</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Rives has painstakingly restored the original Matthew, written in Hebrew, by primarily relying upon the 49 quotes of it in the early church. The early church called it the<em> Gospel According to the Hebrews by Matthew</em>, or GATHM for short. Also Rives includes Agrapha, quotations of Jesus from early prominent church commentators who quote it as from Matthew yet such language is lacking in our Greek Matthew. Thus, this "Agrapha" most likely came from the Hebrew Matthew. And Mr. Rives has also extracted variants from three versions of Matthew's Gospel in Hebrew (the Shem-Tob, Tillet &amp; Munster versions) -- dating between the 1300s-1500s -- portions of which scholars regard as containing viable original material from Apostle Matthew. Finally, Mr. Rives also utilized the early section of the <em>Didache</em> which is the oldest sayings collection dating to about 100 AD. Often it overlaps our current Matthew. Yet, the <em>Didache </em>also has unique variants which many believe came from the original Hebrew version of Matthew.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">With copyright permission, you can listen free to the OGM online at Podomatic. We <a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/original-gospel-of-matthew-audio.html">link here</a> to the audio version. We have several articles of our own relating to the first gospel written -- the original Hebrew Matthew:</span></p>
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<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/hebrew-matthew-baptismal-account.html">Hebrew Matthew - Baptismal Account</a></li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/hebrew-matthew-introduction.html">Hebrew Matthew - Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/hebrew-matthew-library-sources.html">Hebrew Matthew - Library sources</a></li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/hebrew-matthew-start.html">Hebrew Matthew - Start / Overview page</a></li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/hebrew-matthew-variants.html">Hebrew Matthew - Variants list</a></li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/matthew-232-3-in-hebrew-matthew.html">Matthew 23:2-3 in Hebrew Matthew</a></li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/rapture-in-hebrew-matthew.html">Rapture in Hebrew Matthew</a> </li>
<li><a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/review-hebrew-matthew.html">Review of Hebrew Matthew</a></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Rives has written an article on the OGM for Knol by Google. Due to Google discontinuing the Knol project, we have reprinted Rives' article here -- <a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/original-gospel-of-matthew-knol.html">The Original Gospel of Matthew</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">On proof Matthew wrote his Gospel first and that Mark was a pro-Paul edit of Matthew, see S. Rives, Appendix F, <a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/marcan-priority-claim-is-invalid.html">Revisiting the Marcan Priority Claim</a>, from <em>The Original Gospel of Mattthew </em>Vol. 2.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">On the "Historical background on the Original Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew," see <a href="/Hebrew-Matthew/history-of-hebrew-version-of-matthew.html">Appendix B</a> from Rives' <em>Original Gospel of Matthew</em> Vol. 2 excerpted at that link.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"> The three volumes of the <em>Original Gospel of Matthew </em><em>are</em> divided as follow: </span>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">I: <em>The Variants From The Earliest Matthew</em> -- This volume collects all viable earliest variants for Matthew overlaid on the framework of the American Standard Version of Matthew from 1901. These variants are color coded for easy identification. The variants are footnoted so the reader can read its source, and weigh its strength and viability. 231 pages, full color. This can be purchased at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3687457">https://www.createspace.com/3687457</a> or at this <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/ogm_rives-20">Amazon link</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">II: <em>The Appendices To Explain The Earliest Matthew</em> -- This volume collects important scholarly material on the validity of variants, and the significance of the changes to the tradtional text. 225 pages, black &amp; white. This can be purchased at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3760858">https://www.createspace.com/3760858</a> or at this <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/ogm_rives-20">Amazon link</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">III: <em>The Final Reconstruction of the Earliest Matthew</em> --- This volume represents the best estimate of what the Original Gospel of Matthew contained. There is no commentary. It is simply a smooth flowing text with the best variants reflected in the text using color coding to know the source of each variant. The purpose of volume three is that it can be used for devotional reading. However, to know the actual citation for a variant, the color code is not enough. One must go back to Volume 1. The first and third volumes were separated solely to keep costs down. Mr. Rives permits readers thereby to select whether they wish one or both of these two versions.  110 pages, color. Thus, Volume 3 is now available at this<a href="https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3760866"> PURCHASING LINK</a> or at this <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/ogm_rives-20">Amazon link</a>.</span><img style="float: right;" alt="thumbnail_image vol 3 at createspace" height="240" width="160" src="/images/stories/OGM/thumbnail_image vol 3 at createspace.jpg" /></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>More Info on Rives' OGM</strong> </span>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">For information on the OGM project, see the OGM webpage:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gospelofmatthewinhebrew/"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">https://sites.google.com/site/gospelofmatthewinhebrew/</span></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Justification For OGM Project</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Erasmus who died in 1536 was the first reformer to prepare the Bible in English from the best Greek manuscripts. He wrote:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">You cry out that it is a crime to correct the gospels. This is a speech worthier of a coachman than of a theologian. You think it is all very well if a clumsy scribe makes a mistake in transcription and then you deem it a crime to put it right. <strong><em>The only way to determine the true text is to examine the early codices.</em></strong> (Erasmus (1466-1536 AD), quoted in Roland H. Bainton, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Erasmus of Christendom</span> (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1969) at 135.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">I would only add that if all the codices prior to 340 AD are lost or destroyed, the best recourse is to examine the quotes from the original gospels by early church commentators. This way we see how the gospels read earlier in time.</span></p>
<h3>Did Matthew Seal Up His Gospel In Hebrew To Protect It?</h3>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Jerome perceived Apostle Matthew wrote in Hebrew as a means to protect his gospel:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">"A difficult work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but <strong><em>he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them</em></strong>. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and some another." (Jerome to Chromatius and Heliodorus)(Jerome, <em>Works</em> V: 445, quoted in Samuel F. Dunlop, <em>Sod: The Son of Man</em> (1861) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=AX5IAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA46&amp;ots=u8bGzimpKK&amp;dq=this%20very%20book%20they%20never%20gave%20to%20any%20one%20to%20be%20transcribed%20jerome&amp;pg=PA46#v=onepage&amp;q=this%20very%20book%20they%20never%20gave%20to%20any%20one%20to%20be%20transcribed%20jerome&amp;f=false">46</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">In the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Epistle of Peter and James</span>, an Ebionite writing, we similarly read:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">"Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should <strong><em>give the books to all indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men</em></strong>, or be perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that <strong><em>some have already done</em></strong>, it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error.   Wherefore it is better that they should be with us, and that we should communicate them with all the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to live piously, and to save others."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Likewise, Schonfeld in his article said:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">"The Gospel according to the Hebrews is<em><strong> a literary outlaw</strong></em> with a price on its head; but in spite of the scholarly hue and cry<strong><em> it still evades capture</em></strong>. Neither monastic libraries nor Egyptian rubbish heaps have so far yielded up a single leaf of this important document....  For behind Hebrews lies the unknown potentialities of the Nazarene tradition, which may confirm or contradict some of the most cherished beliefs of Orthodox Christianity. It is useless for certain theologians to designate Hebrews as "secondary" on the evidence of the present fragmentary remains preserved in quotation.... Judged by ancient testimony alone<strong><em> it is indisputable that Hebrews has the best right of any Gospel to be considered a genuine apostolic production</em></strong>;... Here is obviously a most valuable witness, perhaps the most valuable witness to the truth about [Yahshua]... whom even a jury composed entirely of orthodox Christians could not despise, and who ought to be brought into court. But the witness is missing, and all that we have is a few reported statements of his taken long ago... it may be argued that there has been dependence not of 'Hebrews' on the Synoptics but vice versa -- that 'Hebrews' was one of the sources on which one or more of them drew." (Hugh Schonfield, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">According to the Hebrews</span> at pages13-18).</span></p>
<h2>The Q Manuscript and the OGM</h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Arguably, the OGM is the intended goal of recovering what is known as Q. This was the acronymn used by German scholars for what they regarded was the Sayings (Logia) Source (Quellen) of Jesus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Technically, Q is often defined in a different theoretical way -- as the common quotations in Matthew and Luke that are not present in Mark. ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source">Q</a> Source," <em>Wikipedia</em>.) This is supposedly the original version of the source for the Greek Matthew and Luke. But there is direct evidence outside of the overlap of Matthew and Luke which supports Q, if viewed as OGM, of more original material. Thus, OGM is broader in concept than Q. Incidentally, Q in German is <em><strong>Logien</strong>quelle, </em><em>i.e.<em>, "</em>Source" (Quelle) and Words (Logia).</em></span></p>
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