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London, Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity, October 21, 1934.
Traditionally the Lutheran Church has required men and women studying to be pastors to learn Hebrew and Greek, the original languages of the Old and New Testaments. At school, Bonhoeffer had been taught the classical Greek of Plato and Aristotle. As part of his theological training, he also learned Koine Greek, the language of the New Testament. Greek was the common language spoken throughout the Roman Empire in Jesus' time, when there were many local languages as well, including Aramaic, which Jesus spoke. The apostle Paul, a Jewish Roman citizen, spoke Greek and could communicate with the Corinthians and other Christian communities in Greece in their own tongue.