In UK and US does people read Bible in Latin language or in English? and what about other European nations, I?
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at
7:21 am
mean France and Germany. And does this act if you read Bible in any language other than it's own language which is Latin, doesn't somehow devalue the religious value of it and is it not an insult to God?
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In the UK, all our standard bibles are in English.
I believe the original biblical scrolls were written in Hebrew and Koine Greek and then translated into Latin (ancient Italian) by the Catholics, because Rome insisted that all religious services were conducted in that language.
That edict has now been recinded and catholic services are usually conducted in the local language, using bibles translated into the relevant mother tongue.
I am not aware that any other religions, other than catholicism, used Latin-translated Bibles.
Why would anything to do with the bible be an insult to God? He didn’t write it. It is just the recorded accounts of stories told by his followers, written down by mortals.
The Latin bible is itself a translation from the original Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. If you are reading a translation, does that (gasp!) devalue your religious experience? We conscientious translators would like to think not. And God doesn’t take offense easily at the best efforts of his created beings.
Hardly anyone reads the Bible in Latin anywhere in the world. But why on earth would reading it in any Language other than Latin demean God’s word?
The Bible was not written in Latin; the old testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek; moreover, the Greek of the New Testament was the everyday language of the common people of the time, not some special high literary form.
Most Latin translations of the Bible are widely inaccurate, and, if anything would be an "insult to God", it would be reading an incorrect version of the Bible. Generally speaking, because translation techniques have improved over the centuries, the more modern a translation, the more accurate it is likely to be. The English King James or Authorised Version, believed by many to be the only version worth reading, is in fact horrendously inaccurate on many places and largely irrelevant today because of the archaic language used in it.