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- From: boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
- Subject: Re: did I like miss your point?
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:28:09 GMT
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- In article <C041Lq.I1o.1@cs.cmu.edu>, drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake) writes:
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- > The notion
- > of the Bible being only in Latin and forbidden to the common man
- > was a mistaken Roman teaching.
-
- Er, wait a minute . . . didn't the Romans SPEAK Latin? As I understand
- events, in the 4th century a team led by St. Jerome prepared a version
- of the Bible written in "Vulgar Latin", the language of ordinary folks.
- For the next dozen or so centuries, Latin was basically the common
- language of academia and international commerce; the Catholic Church
- simply used that common language for its own needs. Only in the last
- few centuries, as the role of Latin was usurped first by French then
- English, that the conservatism of the Church caused the arguments over
- continued use of Latin liturgy.
-
- Some churches did use a Bible in the local language; the "Authorized
- Version" (or King James Bible) was published in England in 1611.
-
- It's a pity, though . . . Latin is so much prettier than gutteral
- English . . . :-)
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- - - Steve
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