Roman Catholics were among the
last to give up defending officially the view that the Gospel was written by
Matthew, one of the Twelve—a change illustrated in 1955 when the secretary of
the Roman Pontifical Biblical Commission gave Catholics “full liberty” in
reference to earlier Biblical Commission decrees, including one which
stipulated that Greek Matthew was identical in substance with a Gospel written
by the apostle in Aramaic or Hebrew. (Raymond
E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives
in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, re. ed. [New York: Yale University Press,
1993], 45 n. 2)
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