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To: LadyDoc

Why don’t you address the absurd nonsense that Christ and the Apostles would know nothing of Latin.


73 posted on 09/03/2012 9:13:03 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Why don’t you address the absurd nonsense that Christ and the Apostles would know nothing of Latin.

Act 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Act 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Act 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Why don't you leave biblical truth out of your pontifications...You should leave the bible to people who are qualified to discuss it...

84 posted on 09/03/2012 12:20:41 PM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Actually, Latin was not commonly spoken in that area: the local language was Aramaic and the “lingua franca” for travelers and business folks was Greek, the legacy of the Hellenic civilization started by Alexander the Greek.

They probably knew Hebrew, because the prayers were in Hebrew, but not for everyday use, especially in the rural areas or in Galilee, which was full of non Jewish people. Also Galilee was under a Herod, not under Romans directly.

So yes, they were under Rome, but it’s not like the government was full of Italians. Rome ruled via local people.

Originally, one of Herod’s sons was place in charge of Judea, but he was no good, so the Romans replaced him with a Roman administrator in 6 AD...

Christ and some of the apostles might have known some Latin, but it would probably be their third language.

People forget that you use different vocabularies for different things. So someone might be able to talk about crime/civil problems with the Roman soldiers, or speak Greek or Latin to sell their fish. But to speak Theology, like Jesus did to Pilate, you would need the language that includes philosophical terms and concepts in the basic language, i.e. Greek. The conversation part “are you king of the Jews”/”What do you mean by king” is Socratic style of questioning. Pilate knew this and got annoyed that he didn’t have a dumb zealot but a guy who could badger terms with him as if he knew philosophy...

Of course, Pilate, who didn’t know Aramaic, might also have used a translator.


92 posted on 09/04/2012 10:15:37 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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