I don't know the entirety of the language history and what the comment refers to about the languages the different versions of the Bible were translated from. But Christianity developed in the Early Roman Empire and later developed into Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox when the Empire split between the East and the West. The original Christian texts were all in Latin - which were created through translations of Hebrew texts. The Catholic Church continued to hold services in Latin through the 1960s until the Vatican allowed for mass to be said in the language of the region in order to "modernize".
Primarily in the ''West". The Roman Empire split and Constantinople (now Istanbul) became the capital of the East (Byzantine Empire) and Rome was the capital of the West (Holy Roman Empire). Catholicism spread into modern-day Europe. But during the Reformation the English split off from the Vatican whereas France remained Catholic. That's when various other sects of Catholicism began to develop -transubstantiation is the main difference between Catholicism and other sects of Christianity.
There are a lot of good books out there on the history of Christianity. It's a very rich and interesting story. Christians were an underground (literally) cult initially and were killed by Romans for their beliefs.
I don't know the entirety of the language history and what the comment refers to about the languages the different versions of the Bible were translated from. But Christianity developed in the Early Roman Empire and later developed into Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox when the Empire split between the East and the West. The original Christian texts were all in Latin - which were created through translations of Hebrew texts. The Catholic Church continued to hold services in Latin through the 1960s until the Vatican allowed for mass to be said in the language of the region in order to "modernize".
Primarily in the ''West". The Roman Empire split and Constantinople (now Istanbul) became the capital of the East (Byzantine Empire) and Rome was the capital of the West (Holy Roman Empire). Catholicism spread into modern-day Europe. But during the Reformation the English split off from the Vatican whereas France remained Catholic. That's when various other sects of Catholicism began to develop -transubstantiation is the main difference between Catholicism and other sects of Christianity.
There are a lot of good books out there on the history of Christianity. It's a very rich and interesting story. Christians were an underground (literally) cult initially and were killed by Romans for their beliefs.
It's fairly complex. Vandals were just one of many incursions that slowly chipped away at the Roman Empire.