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• In this remarkable prophecy, written approximately one and a half thousand years before it happened, and divinely preserved down through time for the Jews to understand, Moses wrote that the Roman Empire would come against the Jews in the Land of Israel, and that the Jews would not understand the language that the Romans spoke.
• And so, the Romans invaded the Land of Israel. The Romans were from Rome, from Italy. They spoke Latin. But even although the Romans ruled Israel with an iron fist for hundreds of years, and even though the Jews were subject to the Romans, the Jews never spoke Latin, they could not understand the Latin language, nor were they required to learn Latin. They no doubt knew a sprinkling of Latin words and phrases which became part of their everyday language, but they did not speak Latin as a daily language.