THE New Testament being one of the principal Parts of the Holy Bible, it is just that we should make a distinct Article of the Latin Versions of it which have been published, as we have done of the Greek Editions. There is a very great number of these Versions: We shall only describe the principal of them.
Novum Testamentum è Græco in Latinum versum ab Erasmo Roterdamo, ann. 1516. It was often revised by Erasmus, and reprinted several times, generally with a Greek Text.
Novum Testamentum ex Græco in Latinum, Operâ Sanctes Pagnini. M. Simon will have it, that as Pagninus did not understand Greek so perfectly as he did Hebrew, he has not so well succeeded in translating the New Testament as in translating the old.
Novum Testamentum Latinâ redditum à Thoma de Vio Cardinale Cajetano. This Author did not understand Greek; but in order to the making his Translation, he had the Assistance of those who were absolute Masters of it. He has not translated the Revelations.
Novum Testamentum Latine factum, per Galterum de Locnum; in 4to. Londini, 1540.
Novum Testamentum ex versione Erasmi à Petro Cholino, à Rodolpho Gualtero iterum cum Græco collatum, & pluribus locis emendatum, 1546. This Translation, or Review of the Translation, was printed with the Zurich Bible. The New Testament of this Author’s translating is to be found generally in the large Collection of his Works of the old Basil Edition, and the new of Amsterdam. It was printed separately at Basil in 1541, with two Latin Versions, and the Greek.
Novum Testamentum ex versione Sebastiani Castalionis, printed several times. The Author has followed the same Method in this as in the Translation of the Old Testament. The Latin Version is to be seen with a French Translation, in 4to. and 8vo. Basileæ, 1572. Both were probably the same Castalio’s.
Novum Testamentum à Theodoro Beza Latinè versum. This Translation was at first very much esteemed, and especially by Protestants. There are some however who blame Beza’s great Confidence in being sometimes too fond of his Conjectures, and departing, without Necessity, from the common Reading of the Greek Text. His Translation has been reprinted very often.
Novum Testamentum Lat. Interprete Erasmo Schmid. 1658.
Novum Testam. Latinè versum à Sebastiano Schmid. 1694.
Epistolæ D. Pauli Latinè versæ, à Jacobo Fabro Stapulens. Addito Commentario, in fol. Paris. 1512. & seq. It is said, that this Author did not perfectly enough understand Greek, and that he has often varied, without Necessity, from the Text of the Vulgate.
We shall say nothing here of those Translators who are to be found likewise among the Commentators. See their Titles in the Index.