Old Latin
Early translation · it · 2nd–4th century translation
The Latin translations made before Jerome’s Vulgate, beginning in the 2nd century in North Africa, Italy, and Gaul. There was no single Old Latin version: each region had its own, and they were revised again and again. They survive in about a hundred manuscripts, each named by a letter (a, b, e, k…), and in the quotations of Latin writers like Tertullian and Cyprian.
Contents
The whole New Testament, though no one manuscript has it all.
Cited For
- Matthew 6:13 “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen”
- Matthew 17:21 “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting”
- Mark 9:29 “and fasting”
- Mark 16:9–20 “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils …”
- John 5:3–4 “waiting for the moving of the water …”
- John 7:8 “not up yet”
- John 7:53–8:11 “And every man went unto his own house …”
- Acts 8:37 “And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God”
Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).
