Secondly concerning the vernacular, we must remember that in the 5th century when St. Jerome translated the Bible from the original languages into Latin, Latin was the language of the people.

He was the translator of the Vulgate version of the Bible. St. Jerome was born in Dalmatia around 340-342 AD. Having grown up a wealthy pagan, Jerome visited Rome at about 20 and was converted and ...

But when the Roman Catholic priest (and later saint) Jerome translated the Bible into Latin circa the late 4th and early 5th centuries CE, he wrote that “cornuta esset facies sua,” or “his ...