Hello, my name is Daniel
de Caussin, I live here in Dunedin, Florida USA with my wife Martha, and [I
have been interfacing with [Melaku Besetegn, I hope I pronounced that
correctly, who is a deacon and preacher in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido
Church] and he asked me to make this video which I am
doing now, and he asked me three questions the first question was
1. How did I
become interested in Ge'ez, the second question
2. Why do I want to learn keys in
the third question is
3. What do I know and believe about the Ge'ez language the
history of the Ge'ez language.
So I will address those in this short video, the first question is why did I
become interested in Ge'ez: it is because my wife and I started reading the
book of Henoch and in its various translations we discovered that some
translators would add words, subtract words, change the order of the chapters
around and verses, just at whatever whim they had at the time.
Many of the people who did these books didn't even believe that the book of
Henoch was inspired words of our heavenly father, they believe that "a
man" wrote them down at various times throughout history, but we know that
this book was specific for us, you and I, for these end times and this, was the
desire of Henoch's heart, is that we all would read this and read the words
properly,
so what we were inspired
to do was to look for the original versions of the book of Henoch which
happened to be in Ge'ez, and that's why we became interested in the Ge'ez
language,
and we actually have
four different versions or four different digital copies of handwritten
manuscripts, which we are comparing word by word and letter by letter to see
where people had opportunity to add whatever they want it over the years, and
some of these manuscripts are from the 1300s and so we are talking many many
many years of opportunity to add subtract or wrest the words that were given to
Henoch by the angel Uriel.
We also know that Henoch
gave his grandson, Noah, the book that he had, and after the flood Noah carried
this book through the flood and he later on his grandchildren, Abraham
especially came to live with Noah, and Abraham learned this book of Henoch, and
learned Ge'ez and was able to read it and actually speak to people in his area
in Ge'ez
and the time that from
the Dead Sea Scrolls we have it written that Abraham when he went down into
Egypt, read the book of Henoch to the people of Egypt, and gained favor because
of this reading of the book of Henoch, and I believe that was in Ge'ez, and the
Ethiopians have influenced people throughout the Scriptures. Moses married an
Ethiopian woman and probably spoke Ge'ez at that time as well, so Ge'ez has an
old and very rich history, the book of Henoch was written especially for us,
this is why it is important for us to find the original information and present
it properly.
