“…to debate Western clerics who insisted on the tradition of using only Hebrew, Greek, and Latin for worship, which the Slavonic sources deride as the “trilingual heresy” or “Pilatian heresy” (after Pilate’s use of those three languages for the sign on Christ’s cross (John 19:20) ). (Cyril) is said to have responded with St. Paul’s words: “that every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord” (Phil. 2: 11)
“…we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” Acts 2: 10b
Cyril (826-69) and Methodius (c. 815-85) were brothers who came from a Greek family in Thessalonica.The younger brother took the name “Cyril” when he became a monk in 868. After ordination, Cyrilbecame librarian at the church of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople. In 862 the brotherswere sent by the emperor as missionaries to what is now the Czech republic, where they taught in thenative Slavic tongue. Cyril invented the alphabet today know today as “Cyrillic,” which provided awritten language for the liturgy and Scriptures for the Slavic peoples. This use of the vernacularestablished an important principle for evangelical missions. (Bio source: LCMS, Commemorations)
In aninformative article in the May/June 2013 edition of Touchstone,“The Thessalonian Brothers: The Legacy of the Mission of Cyril and Methodius 1,150 Years Later”, on the way to…
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