Vulgate

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In 410 the monk Jerome produced a version of the Christian Bible in Latin, the Vulgate, which was to be the main edition in Europe until the sixteenth century.

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Some Catholic authorities have long regretted that the job of re-translating the Vulgate* had not been given to Cardinal Newman.

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Great in erudition, Cardinal Gasquet had spent 22 years revising the Vulgate Bible, a task for which he wished 50 years.

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The Western world, in its scholarly moments, remembers St. Jerome as the learned ascetic who translated the Old Testament into serviceable 4th century Latin�his Vulgate remains the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.

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It was in the form of the Vulgate that the Scriptures were known to the Saxons and all other peoples of western Europe.

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