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To: littlepaddle

Funny.... Jesus didn't speak Latin. And he came as a common man and fought all the traditionalists that deceived people into thinking keeping a man-made tradition would save people.


4 posted on 07/30/2005 9:51:43 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: BigFinn

Easy, BigFinn!

Jesus didn't speak Elizabethan English either . . . and he said, "I did not come to abolish the law and the prophets but to bring them to fulfillment." And I'm sure you're aware of some of his other statements, "You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church . . . whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven . . . whoever hears you, hears me . . . " and "When the Spirit of Truth comes who proceeds from the Father and whom the Father will send in my name, he will lead you into all truth."

And how many "common men" do you know who can heal the sick, raise the dead, and then rise themselves in the glory of resurrection?

Beware facile responses that reduce Jesus' teachings to "aw shucks" and the Holy Eucharist to grape juice and crackers.


5 posted on 07/30/2005 10:12:11 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
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To: BigFinn

Jesus didn't speak Latin? In what language did He and Pilate converse? Scripture makes no mention of a translator being present.


10 posted on 07/30/2005 1:39:01 PM PDT by Macoraba
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To: BigFinn
Jesus didn't speak Latin

Consider the discourse that Jesus had with the Roman centurion. It is very likely that that conversation took place in Latin as the centurion probably knew no other language and Jesus did as Jerusalem was a cosmopolitan city in the Roman Empire.

12 posted on 07/30/2005 2:23:17 PM PDT by pbear8 (Nothing like a good recess appointment!)
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To: BigFinn
Funny.... Jesus didn't speak Latin.

Another person that didn't read the article or chooses to be purposely obtuse. It's not about Latin, per say being a sacred language, but a dead language, in which meanings of words do not evolve like languages that are in current use. A language that doesn't change is best to express the Catholic faith which also does not change.

15 posted on 07/30/2005 2:55:30 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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