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To: mike182d
Nonsequitor. You did not address why should the language of dead pagan males be used as the official language of a multinational Church. Aramaic would be better.

All this doesn't matter, as the word of God takes precedence above all, no matter what some "scholar" or politician in a robe says.

96 posted on 10/14/2005 1:27:22 PM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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To: Clemenza

The good thing about Latin is that it is no longer anybody's private language, because it is no longer a spoken language.

The first language of the Church was probably Greek, but most people of Jesus' time could get by in a little Greek and a little Latin, in addition to their local native language. With the dominance of Rome, Latin eventually took over and was not used only by pagans, but by every educated person in Europe. In fact, this was the case until very late: legal and official documents were written in Latin so that no local linguistic "overlays" could confuse the meaning.

That's the reason the official language of the Church is still Latin. You have to have a central starting point, and in many ways, it is now better to have one where the definitions are fixed and the resulting vernacular translations will therefore be more uniform, both linguistically and doctrinally.


99 posted on 10/14/2005 1:38:09 PM PDT by livius
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To: Clemenza
You did not address why should the language of dead pagan males be used as the official language of a multinational Church.

Again...

Here you go

105 posted on 10/14/2005 3:28:17 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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To: Clemenza
You did not address why should the language of dead pagan males be used as the official language of a multinational Church.

"Dead pagan males"? Did Roman women speak something other than Latin?

As for Latin being the language of pagans, Rome was pagan for approximately 1000 years while the Roman church has been using Latin for 2000 years. Thus Latin has been used by Christians for twice as long as the pagan Romans used it.

106 posted on 10/14/2005 6:53:00 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Clemenza
Nonsequitor. You did not address why should the language of dead pagan males be used as the official language of a multinational Church.

Every language is the language of dead pagan males, although I'm sure the womyn spoke it as well.

112 posted on 10/14/2005 7:46:12 PM PDT by TradicalRC (Benedicamus Domino.)
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