the Sacramentum

[Majd il-Romani]

does anyone know what the words to the sacramentum are? I tried looking for them on Google and wikipedia and stuff but I cant find them. Thanks in advance

[Socy]

I'm not sure but in school we learned that a Sacrament was a "Holy Action", in Greek. So.. Perhaps something along those lines?

[Majd il-Romani]

I'm not sure but in school we learned that a Sacrament was a "Holy Action", in Greek. So.. Perhaps something along those lines?

No the sacramentum was the Loyalty Oath taken by ROman Soldiers

[Tellos Athenaios]

No the sacramentum was the Loyalty Oath taken by ROman Soldiers

I take it you haven't kept yourself up to date with Christian terminology since its conception? I mean, it's only what like 1500+ years ago that the Christian Orthodoxy settled the matter of/defined the Sacramentum/Sacramenta (ever since the canonical terminology for the key turning-points in a person's (spiritual) life)? Council of Nicaea, 325 BC.?

Back to the matter at hand; litterally Sacramentum is Latin for "Sacred thing". Oaths were typically made binding by dedicating them to something/someone sacred thereby making the oath itself sacred. Hence the usually severe penalties imposed on oath-breaking: it's essentially sacrilege.

[Lysimachos]

I think he is asking for what they actually said :)

[blitzkrieg80]

Someone might ask for world peace too ~:)