Translated Scriptures Into Latin
Jerome’s Latin Vulgate served as the basis for translations of both the Old and New Testament into Syriac, Arabic, Spanish, and many other languages, including English. The Vulgate provided the basis for the Douai-Reims Bible (New Testament, 1582; Old Testament, 1609–10), which remained the only authorized Bible in English for Roman Catholics until the 20th century.
The Bible translations into Latin are the versions used in the Western part of the former Roman Empire until the Reformation and still used, along with translations from Latin into the vernacular, in …
Jerome (5th century) translated the Bible into Latin, called the Vulgate, which has become the official Roman Catholic Bible. The Council of Trent in 1546 met to consider doctrines and published a list of books, which were to be considered canonical, that is, to be included in the Bible.
St. Jerome was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to gather and examine all Holy Scriptures, Old and New and translate them into LATIN for the good of the Catholic Church.
Correspondence of Augustine and Jerome concerning the Latin Translation of the Bible. An interesting episode in the history of Bible translation was the exchange of letters between Augustine (Bishop of Hippo) and Jerome, concerning Jerome’s new Latin translation of the Old Testament.
Later, the Bible was translated from Greek into Latin and from Latin, Hebrew, The process used to translate the scriptures into non-English languages should be familiar to students of Church history. It is much the same process the Prophet used to translate the Book of Mormon into English.
The New Testament was originally written in Greek, with some having been translated into Latin already. Pope Damasus I and St. Jerome knew at this time (390) that Latin was the most common language of the Roman Empire.
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The intention of St Jerome, translating into Latin the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testament, was that ordinary Christians of the Roman empire should be able to read the word of God. ‘Ignorance of the scriptures’, he wrote, ‘is ignorance of Christ’.
The Vulgate (Latin Bible) was translated by St. Jerome in the 4th Century. The Jewish books, what we call as Old Testament in the Bible, were translated into Koine Greek, cal … led Septuagint, a
