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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 4715564, member: 75482"]The only silver coins readily available to the temple priests would have been shekels and half-shekels of Tyre, being the only silver coins acceptable for payment of the temple tax. The original Greek is simply "thirty silver [ones]".</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn't go very far in classical Greek as a university student but it was enough to struggle through the New Testament. Fortunately for me, several of the NT authors were struggling with Greek as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 4715564, member: 75482"]The only silver coins readily available to the temple priests would have been shekels and half-shekels of Tyre, being the only silver coins acceptable for payment of the temple tax. The original Greek is simply "thirty silver [ones]". I didn't go very far in classical Greek as a university student but it was enough to struggle through the New Testament. Fortunately for me, several of the NT authors were struggling with Greek as well.[/QUOTE]
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