Did the protestant church always speak in the vernacular?
One of the main arguments that Luther and Northern Europe had with the Church in Rome was that by order no bible could be writ en in the language of the country only in latin. This gave the power of interpretation of the words of the bible in the Priest’s Hands so the church could put out it’s own agenda from the pulpit and have the people believe it. The invention of the Printing Press and the publishing of the Gutenberg Bible had allowed the common people to own their own bibles to read and interpret in their own way. The Catholic Church tried to stamp this out but the educated in the counties of England Scotland and the Germanic Principalities continued to use the underground bibles and thus planted the seeds for the Reformation.
