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- Subject: Re: did I like miss your point?
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 06:20:13 GMT
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- >as Peter Hampe recently pointed out, the whole
- >notion of having a bible in the vernacular is
- >in itself a very MODERN HERETICAL NOTION foiseted
- >by Factions of the ModernSeXularHumanism upon
- >the True Believers.
- >
- >Or did you miss the whole section in your shool
- >days about the middle ages, not to mention, say
- >history from 30AD to 1560AD?
-
-
- Huh? Oh, you must be talking about the churches of the West. The
- Eastern Orthodox Church has always provided a translation of the
- Bible in the vernacular to her people. As early as the 4th
- century, St John Chrysostom was encouraging people to spend their
- time in Bible reading and study -- even the laity. The notion
- of the Bible being only in Latin and forbidden to the common man
- was a mistaken Roman teaching.
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