Quantum redactiones paginae "Lingua sacra" differant

Semel veneratione religione coniungitur, credentes ascribent ad linguam venerations virtutes quae non dent linguas nativas suarum. Metus est, scriptura sacra, perdiendi auctoritates subtilitatesque ab translationibus aut probantibus versionibus novis scripturarum. Lingua sacra typice vestituta est sollemnitate dignitateque quas sermo vulgaris deest. Consequitur, institutio clerium in usum linguae sacrea facta est.

Consequitur cleri in usu lingua sacra induentur cultura momenti

 

Consequently, the training of clergy in the use of a sacred language becomes an important cultural investment, and their use of the tongue is perceived to give them access to a body of knowledge that untrained lay people cannot (or should not) access. In medieval Europe, the (real or putative) ability to read (see also benefit of clergy) scripture—which was in Latin—was considered a prerogative of the priesthood, and a benchmark of literacy; until near the end of the period almost all who could read and write could do so in Latin.