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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not sure I follow you, kindlekitten. The early Christian church existed within the Roman Empire whose language was Latin. It would have been a little surprising had services been conducted in a language other than Latin, wouldn't it?  |
which Latin? the vulgur died out with the empire. then it evolved into several different dialects some of which eventually became modern languages. eccleastical latin became more or less an entity of its own. classical latin was the language of statesman and scholars and useful as a common written language.
so given all of these what do you think the poor farmer spoke that was being preached at in a formal and stylized language used and developed by the church and certainly not taught to anyone below a small educated minority