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To: Alberta's Child
I don’t think Latin was an “official” Church language until (maybe) the 7th or 8th Century.

You obviously don't know the history behind Pope Damasus I in 382 commissioning St. Jerome to produce The Vulgate which updated the Vetus Latina. Latin was the official language of the Church in the first century, several hundred years before you "think" it was.

47 posted on 09/02/2012 7:29:20 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I was under the impression that the earliest roots of the Latin Mass as we know it date back to the reforms of the Roman Missal under Pope St. Gregory the Great.


49 posted on 09/02/2012 7:48:42 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Though it would make sense for Latin to be the “official” language of the Church so far back, considering the early spread of the faith through the Roman Empire.


50 posted on 09/02/2012 7:51:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Latin was the language of the Church of Rome. Until the second century, the Liturgy was in Greek. Earlier Latin translations of the Bible were done, but the Pope knew that something better was required. So he tasked Jerome to make a new translation. As he may himself have been of Greek descent, and certainly had a first rate command of the language —as his “quarrel-mate Augustine did not, produced a first class work. But he didn’t do all the Vulgate. His work was mixed with some of the older Latin versions and then redacted over the centuries, although he did master Hebrew so to do justice to Jewish Scripture, so that by the 16th Century when the Council of Trent made the Vulgate the standard, it needed revision. The great irony is that although Erasmus had produced a new version of the Greek New Testament, and caused other scholars to look again at the Greek Bible, the Vulgate was probably a better translation of the Greek than either Luther’s or the KJV. Even now we are not sure that Jerome did not have better Greek manuscripts to work with than the ones extant, which we have to look at.


62 posted on 09/02/2012 9:43:35 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Latin was the official language of the Church in the first century, several hundred years before you "think" it was.

Really??? But yet John the Apostle at the end of the century wrote the scriptures in Greek...

That, along with countless other things shows that your Catholic religion was not the Christianity spoken of in the scriptures by the Apostles and Desciples...

78 posted on 09/03/2012 11:30:20 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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