> >The Vulgate isn't written in classical latin. It's written in a highly
> elegant
> >and literary form of vulgate latin, which was the language of the people,
> >and vulgarly local.
>
> I'm sure the british and german peasantry would have been interested to
> learn that.
The british and german peasantry was non-existent when the Vulgate was composed.
> Of course the fact that they didn't speak a derivative of Latin
> meant their barrier to appreciating it was higher and therefore they felt
> excluded,
AFAIK the "british" and "german" dialects at the time were about as distant from latin as, say, Romanian from Spanish.
"British" certainly : the celts and the latins could understand each other pretty easily. Does anyone have any info about "german" and latin ? It'd be appreciated.
> thus creating an opportunity for protestantism and it's
> freedom of alternative interpretation to flourish.
That's an anachronistic idea. The Vulgate was composed over 1.000 years before the advent of protestantism.
Julian Lord
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