04-22-2004, 07:30 PM
When it suits their purpose, I'm sure they are Aramaic primacists. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->
All kidding aside - to my ears, the Vulgate-only Catholic sounds like the KJV-only Protestant. Even if they both occasionally plead their case to the Aramaic underlying the Greek. They are both crazy, anyway - as both the Vulgate and KJV are translations of a translation.
If Meshikha spoke Latin or English, one of them would be right. As it stands, they both fell out of different branches of the same nut tree.
All kidding aside - to my ears, the Vulgate-only Catholic sounds like the KJV-only Protestant. Even if they both occasionally plead their case to the Aramaic underlying the Greek. They are both crazy, anyway - as both the Vulgate and KJV are translations of a translation.
If Meshikha spoke Latin or English, one of them would be right. As it stands, they both fell out of different branches of the same nut tree.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan