One of the historical issues that is little spoken of is that in the first five centuries the Bible was in almost 200 languages. The translations were so prolific they became a source of heretical beliefs and schism due to the poor translations and contextural issues with the various languages.
The Latin Vulgate was done to standardize and prevent problems, not to “take the bible from from the common folk” because few read and almost no one could afford a hand scribed bible — there were no printing presses.
As printing and distribution the concept of the bible in the local language was an easily foreseen blow up as any change prompts controversy with an issue this profound. The KJV came from such controversy, meant to settle earlier problems with other english translations.
Yes I read another description of the history of the bible that described the bible as being ‘trapped’ in Latin.
I had to chuckle thinking of Jerome trying to translate from Aramaic and Greek into Latin and Celtic, Gaelic, Old Norse and Old Dutch.
For more than ten centuries it was Latin that was faithfully copied and recopied by the monks and the Latin was read and reread by the priests at Mass.
And then when the printing press came along Gutenberg, a Catholic, and up to eight other German printers who printed the first German translations of the Catholic Latin Vulgate to keep it under a rock.
yeah that’s it... the Catholics stifled the Bible.
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