Old Latin - 2nd century text-line

Steven Avery

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Thomas Nicol (1846-1916)
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Volume 3 (1915) edited by James Orr
Thomas Nicol
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These Old Latin translations going back in their earliest forms to nearly the middle of the 2nd cent. are very early witnesses to the Gr text from which they were made. They are the more valuable inasmuch as they are manifestly very literal translations. Our great uncial MSS. reach no farther back than the 4th century, whereas in the Old Latin we have evidence--indirect indeed and requiring to be cautiously used--reaching back to the 2nd cent. The text of these MSS is neither dated nor localized, whereas the evidence of these VSS, coming from a particular province of the church, and being used by Fathers whose period is definitely known, enables us to judge of the type of Gr text then and there in use. In this connection, too, it is noteworthy that while the variations of which Jerome and Augustine complained were largely due to the blunders, or natural mistakes, of copyists, they did sometimes represent various readings in the Greek originals.
 
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