Latin Vulgate
Early translation · vg · Jerome, c. 400
The Latin Bible of the Western church for over a thousand years. In 382 Pope Damasus asked Jerome to revise the Old Latin Gospels; Jerome went on to translate the Old Testament from the Hebrew, and others revised the rest of the New Testament by about 405. Its oldest complete manuscripts are Codex Fuldensis (546) and Codex Amiatinus (about 700). The Clementine edition of 1592 was the Catholic church’s standard text until the 20th century.
Contents
The whole Bible.
Cited For
- Matthew 17:21 “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting”
- Matthew 23:14 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation”
- Mark 9:29 “and fasting”
- Mark 11:26 “But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses”
- 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 7:53–8:11 “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).
