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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3751262, member: 72790&quot;]Very true about the origin of the Vulgate, and the difficulties of establishing what the earliest versions of Gospels looked like. I believe you are mistaken though, about the use of Latin in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine). Justinian was the last native speaker of Latin emperor, and the last holdouts of the Byzantines where Latin was spoken, the Balkans, Carthage and Southern Italy (where Greek was as commonly used there until around 1100 AD) were lost to Constantinople a few centuries after Justinian&#039;s reign. Though they called themselves Romaioi, few Byzantines could understand much if any Latin, that from Westerners visiting the region. Westerners during the Crusades were constantly annoyed that the so called &quot;Romans&quot; could not speak Latin, even Byzantine officials. As&nbsp; for biblical, use, the Byzantines did have access to Greek language bibles, the Septuagint for the Old Testament and of course the earliest versions of the New Testament written in Koine Greek, except possibly the Gospel, of Mathew (Aramaic). For the response, Eucharisto poli.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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