TITLE DEED: HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME THE NEW TESTAMENT

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: April 30, 2006| Author: GARY DEXTER | Copyright information

Like so many other good things, the term 'the New Testament' comes from Tertullian. The fiery theologian wrote in his Against Marcion (c. AD 208): 'For it is certain that the whole aim at which he has strenuously laboured... centres in this, that he may establish a diversity between the Old and the New Testaments.' Tertullian was writing in Latin, and so his original phrase was 'novum testamentum':...

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