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An Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin was written to meet the needs of students who desire to study the Latin language in the form it assumed in the hands of the Fathers of the Western Church and of their successors. The book contains a summary of syntactical rules necessary for understanding the works of these writers, with an explanation of the points in which Ecclesiastical Latin differs...

THE ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN THE basis, and much of the content, of Ecclesiastical Latin is to be found in the vernacular speech of the Roman people of which but little survives in literature. The form of Latin which is most commonly studied is that which is to be found in the writings of the great authors who lived in the century before the commencement of the Christian era. To this form of the language the name ‘Classical’ has been given, and it is often referred to as the
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