Sentences with phrase «vulgate says»

At least, that is what the LXX and Vulgate says.

Not exact matches

Jerome, the great Latin scholar who in the fifth century was responsible for the Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, in his brief biography of James, says: «James wrote a single Letter... and even this is claimed by some to have been published by someone else under his name, and gradually, as time went on, to have gained authority» (Lives of Illustrious Men 2).

Compare the concordance for the Vulgate Bible to that of, say, the Septuagint (a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek).

This is a fresh translation from the Vulgate, but «where the Vulgate yields no tolerable sense,» says the translator, «or yields a sense which evidently quarrels with the context,» he has rendered the passage from the Hebrew text and given the literal translation of the Latin Vulgate in a footnote.