Dr. J. H. Moulton wrote, “The New Testament writers had little idea that they were writing literature. The Holy Ghost spoke absolutely in the language of the people. . . . The very grammar and dictionary cry out against men who would allow the Scrip tures to appear in any other form than that ‘understanded of the people.’” The language spoken throughout the Roman Empire in the first century of this era was Hellenistic Greek, otherwise called the Koiné, or the common dialect of the people. How it