Sacred Languages: LATIN, GREEK, AND HEBREW
The Church regards three, and only three, languages as "sacred." These, as referred to several times in Sacred Scripture (Luke 23:38, John 19:20, Apocalypse 9:11), are Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. As history clearly shows, Providence consecrated these three languages at different periods to divine purposes. Each of these languages was, in some form, specially dedicated to religious purposes in contrast to the vernacular.

It is a common misconception that the Jews of Christ's time spoke Hebrew. They did not. When the Jews returned from the Babylonian captivity in 538 B.C., they were speaking a form of Syriac, sometimes called Aramaic, as their vernacular. Hebrew had become a sacred language, not a vernacular, reserved for religious services and the teaching of the rabbis, much as Latin came to be used in the Roman Catholic Church. (Hebrew is related to Syriac in somewhat the same way as French to Italian. They have a common ancestor, but the speaker of one would not easily understand the other.)
 
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