[giotto]

Just bring back the Latin and you won’t have to worry about the official translations.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Just bring back the Latin and you won’t have to worry about the official translations.”

BINGO!!!

[muawiyah]

When it comes to common rules or statements (perhaps even "of faith") used by hundreds of thousands of people there is no end of disputes regarding the most subtle of meanings implicit in the words, their order (or grammatical construction) or the number of times they are used on conjunction with or apposition to other similar phrases in different sections.

Which means that once you get back to the Latin of the Late Middle Ages, you need to go to the Latin of the Early Middle Ages, and then the Latin of the Late Roman Period ~ or maybe the Middle Byzantine Period ~ or maybe even to Modern, Medieval, Byzantine, or possibly even Classical Greek (depending on phrase or clause at dispute, and when it originated, and which authorities of which rank and reputation ever commented on it).

In general it's usually more efficient to simply come up with a more modern statement than to try to figure out what a writer/source/authority meant more than a thousand years back.

There are people who despise modernism but that's a whole 'nuther question.

With several years of Latin under my belt and a thorough grounding in Spanish, French, German, Italian and several other languages, I couldn't quite figure out what the translating authority had done by simply leaving the spiritu part out. Left me feeling I must have missed class one time too many or something.

[murron]

I’ve been attending a traditional Latin Mass near my house, so there is no translation problem.

[sneakers]

I wholeheartedly agree.