My understanding was if you wanted a document to be taken seriously and stand the test of time, you wrote/translated it to Greek, not the native tongue of the author.
The idea being that Greek was a language known to around the world and was likely to stay around, unlike Aramaic
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Reply to Why Isn’t the New Testament in Latin? by ItaloSvevo111
My understanding was if you wanted a document to be taken seriously and stand the test of time, you wrote/translated it to Greek, not the native tongue of the author.
The idea being that Greek was a language known to around the world and was likely to stay around, unlike Aramaic