It's a language with a long cultured tradition, that was formalized very early on. Of course that early formalization would have an impact, that's what you woul

It's a language with a long cultured tradition, that was formalized very early on. Of course that early formalization would have an impact, that's what you would expect. The many layers of meanings is again what you would expect to emerge after a long history of entangling various fields of knowledge, such as philosophy, history, theology, etc, in a dense web with language at its core seen as a primary tool of exploration in these fields (their metaphysics postulated that words have "power" in and of themselves, so language automatically acquired very high status). Some of these developments are also seen in Europe historically, but not to the same extent. Probably because there was no single unifying language there to play that role (Latin did play that role, but too briefly, and there was no continuity on that level between the ancient Greek tradition and the latinizing Middle Ages - while the whole eastern half of that cultural ecosystem skewed towards a Slavic lingua franca, and even then mostly for religious purposes).