Probably cuz the religion was invented 2000 years ago

Maybe Hell is just so full of red tape that it was only thousands of years after it had been a predominant language, did they switch to Latin for all contracts. In another 1000 years, they’ll switch to Mandarin, by which point we’ll be speaking duck.

Latin is like the second oldest language still in use or something isn't it?

Quackity quack? Quack!

What if the Romans got Latin from Satan?

Maybe Latin is just a simplified form of Infernal that us humans can pronounce

Well, I can't imagine hell does a lot of innovating in the humanities. At least not any that isn't a form of punishment. They probably just take whatever inventions humans come up with that suit their needs.

Latin was the language most conducive to evil.

Hell still runs on cobol.

Well, thers hebrew, greek, farsi which are actually spoken. Ancient greek is still sifferent than modern greek as, i assume, is the same for the others.

Satan: No idea why you’d think I wouldn’t move on from Latin. Probably something to take up with movie directors, hey?

The oldest lenguage still in use is Basque, it's straight from the stone age. All words that have to do with cutting or separating, have as their root word stone.

Yeah but they were speaking ancient hebrew and aramaic not latin

Modern hebrew is a recent (post WW2) reconstruction of ancient hebrew that just kinda makes shit up sometimes. I wouldn't call them the same thing.

The lineage of ancient Hebrew was Yiddish just as todays greek naturally grew out of ancient greek (probably idk the language history of greek so maybe its weird too idk)

Satan did tempt Eve with knowledge.

Theory: this is latent Protestantism showing itself. Protestants hated the Latin Mass and vilified anything associated with Roman Catholicism. And so depicting Latin as the language of the Devil was part of this project.

Makes sense, Satan's a lawyer

I mean, Nero was considered an antichrist.

Then the Aramaic texts were translated into Greek, which were then spread in the Roman empire, until eventually a Roman caesar was converted, who then made it the state religion, which after the empire collapsed the church apparatus that survived used the fact that only the educated elite still spoke Latin as a form of political control, which then caused then cultural perception of Latin to be associated with the arcane and powerful.

So presto chango Latin speaking Satan was born

He's rather erudite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzLFqOTZyw

And pro-imperialism. Even Ha-Satan is schismed!

The real Satan speaks Sumerian, that's a well-known fact.

Yup, specially the Beast with the 666

It's why it still works.