the Sacramentum

**Majd il-Romani** · 11-25-2008, 20:35

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** · 11-25-2008, 21:04

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** · 11-25-2008, 21:09

Originally Posted by 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?

No the sacramentum was the Loyalty Oath taken by ROman Soldiers

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-25-2008, 23:46

Originally Posted by Majd il-Romani

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.