RELIGIONS
CHRISTIANITY
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English and Spanish.
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Greek and Hebrew.
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Hebrew and Latin.
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Latin and Greek.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Christians in Rome adopted Latin and it became the Church’s language in the fourth century. Saint Jerome’s Bible translation into Latin is called the Vulgate because it used common (or “vulgar”) Latin. With Scripture in Latin, the Church adopted the Roman tongue for its mass everywhere.
Detailed explanation-2: -But Latin and Greek were common at the time of Jesus. It’s unlikely Jesus would have known Latin beyond a few words, says Jonathan Katz, stipendiary lecturer in Classics at Oxford University. It was the language of law and the Roman military and Jesus was unlikely to be familiar with the vocabulary of these worlds.
Detailed explanation-3: -By approving Christianity, the Roman state directly undermined its religious traditions. Finally, by this time, Romans considered their emperor a god. But the Christian belief in one god-who was not the emperor-weakened the authority and credibility of the emperor.