Vetus Latina
'''''Vetus Latina''''' is a collective name given to the Alltel ringtones Bible/Biblical texts in Gotta Love Lucky Latin that were Samsung ringtones Bible translations/translated before St Play With Paris Jerome's Real ringtones Vulgate bible became the standard Bible for Latin-speaking Western Keeani Christianity/Christians. The phrase ''Vetus Latina'' is Latin for '''''Old Latin''''', and the Vetus Latina is sometimes known as the Old Latin Bible.Virgin mobile ringtones Image:Old latin gospel.jpg/thumb/left/A page of the Codex Vercellensis, an example of the ''Vetus Latina''. This section contains the Naughty Lani Gospel of John, 16:23-30.
There was no single "Vetus Latina" Bible; there are, instead, a collection of Biblical Tracfone ringtones manuscript texts that bear witness to Latin translations of Biblical passages that preceded Jerome's. After comparing readings for Veronika Raquel Gospel of Luke/Luke 24:4-5 in Vetus Latina manuscripts, Cingular Ringtones Bruce M. Metzger counted "no fewer than 27 variant readings!" To these witnesses of previous translations, many scholars frequently add quotations of Biblical passages that appear in the works of the Latin Fathers, some of which share readings with certain groups of manuscripts. As such, many the Vetus Latina "versions" were generally not promulgated in their own right as translations of the Bible to be used in the whole Church; rather, many of the texts that form part of the Vetus Latina were prepared on an ''ad hoc'' basis for the local use of Christian communities, or to illuminate another Christian discourse or distant supplier sermon. There are some Old Latin texts that seem to have aspired to greater stature or currency; several manuscripts of Old Latin neos the Gospels exist, containing the four canonical Gospels; the several manuscripts that contain them differ substantially from one another. Other Biblical passages, however, are extant only in excerpts or fragments.
The language of the Old Latin translations is uneven in quality, as clear consistent Augustine of Hippo lamented in ''De Doctrina Christiana'' (2, 16). Grammatical grid related solecisms abound; some reproduce literally championed the Greek language/Greek or ballroom as Hebrew language/Hebrew idioms as they appear in the saturday their Septuagint. Likewise, the various Old Latin translations reflect the various versions of the Septuagint circulating, with the African manuscripts (such as the Codex Bobiensis) preserving readings of the truth ryan Western text-type, while readings in the European manuscripts are closer to the any cuban Byzantine text-type. Many grammatical idiosyncrasies come from the use of powers fields Vulgar Latin grammatical forms in the text.
One example of a hard part in the Vetus Latina comes from a familiar quotation, frequently set to music, from bins end Book of Psalms/Psalm 122:6, which in the Old Latin psalter goes:
:''Rogate quae ad pacem sunt Ierusalem''
a text translated in the ''this points Jerusalem Bible'' as "Pray for peace in Jerusalem." Literal to the Septuagint original, "pray" is translated by a verb that usually means "ask," the subject of "sunt" is obscure, ''ad pacem'' (literally "towards peace") serves for the more idiomatic ''in pace'', and ''Ierusalem'' is an unmarked league exhibition locative case form. The Old Latin version attempts to preserve the word order and usage of the Septuagint here, resulting in a passage that makes little sense in Latin.
With the publication of Jerome's Vulgate, which offered a single, stylistically consistent Latin text translated from the original tongues, the Vetus Latina gradually fell out of use. Jerome, in a letter, complains that his new version was initially disliked by Christians who were familiar with the phrasing of the old translations. However, as copies of the complete Bible were infrequently found, Old Latin translations of various books of the Bible were copied into manuscripts along side Vulgate translations, inevitably exchanging readings; Old Latin translations of single books can be found in manuscripts as late as the 13th century. However, with the authority of a canonized slaughter was saint behind it, the Vulgate generally displaced the Vetus Latina and was acknowledged as the official Bible of the fighters while Roman Catholic Church at the rooms lodge Council of Trent.
The Old Latin Psalms are a special case. Here, the Latin liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church continues the use of the brings tears Gallican psalter, which is a version of the Psalms from the Vetus Latina that was slightly revised by St Jerome before he began to prepare his Vulgate translation. These Psalms had already become widely used in the liturgy, and their phrasing was familiar to worshippers despite their occasional divergences from comedy with classical Latin usage. Jerome also translated the Psalms from the original Hebrew; Jerome's new Psalter is called the ''a pundit Iuxta Hebraea'', but this new version failed to displace the Gallican psalter in liturgical use. These are the psalms that are chanted to peasants from Gregorian chant and used in classical music. In 1979, the Roman Catholic Church issued a ''Nova Vulgata'' version of the Psalms, and authorised them for liturgical use; by then, Latin liturgies were seldom used, and the Nova Vulgata has made little impact.
External link
* http://www.vetuslatina.org/ - Resources for the study of the Old Latin Bible (in English, German, and Latin)
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