[the808bass]

Will you affirm for me that the Catholic Church did not translate the Bible into Latin as a dead language, but raher as the common tongue of those who could read in the Western Empire?

Reasonable enough. Of course it gets troubling later on when they don't want any new translations despite the fact that Latin was no longer the "common tongue."

[SoothingDave]

Reasonable enough. Of course it gets troubling later on when they don't want any new translations despite the fact that Latin was no longer the "common tongue."

Thank you. If you go back far enough, I even mentioned this and deliberately separated the Church's sluggishness to abandon Latin in favor of modern tongues. But for the purposes here, I was strictly referring to the Church's motive in creating a Latin Bible.

SD