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Milan, where the church prized its Itala Bible. It contrasted with those being used by Rome, which would include the Greek Bible edited for Constantine by Eusebius. Helvidius publicly challenged the Catholic, Jerome, for using corrupt Greek manuscripts. It was such criticism of Constantine's Eusebius Greek Bible by eminent scholars that had prodded Jerome into caution. So, as we have seen, instead of just translating Eusebius' Bible from the Greek into Latin, he also sought out early Greek manuscripts and ended up with a Bible that was much closer to the Itala, or Traditional Text, yet, importantly, it still retained many corruptions. It is important to remember the influence which these godly Waldensian scholars had on Jerome, for his Bible became the authorised Latin Vulgate which the Church of Rome authenticated at the Council of Trent. This explains why its progeny the Douay Bible, is closer to the King James Version than most later modern versions which have virtually reverted to the text-type used by Eusebius. We shall enlarge on this phenomenon in section four. Jovinianus, a learned compatriot of Helvidius, offended Jerome and his followers by his superior scholarship and his condemnation of the heathen superstitions which Jerome nurtured and practiced; for Jerome encouraged an ascetic form of worship which resulted in the pagan monasticism practiced by the priests and other Roman religionists to this day (See Lilly, "Vigilantius and His Time", p 246). Public proceedings were instituted against Jovinianus in Rome and Milan and, according to A.H. Newman, this forced Jovinianis and his fellow believers to seek refuge in the Alpine Valleys [among the Vaudois or Waldenses] ("A Manual of Church History", Vol. I p 376). The evidence of history compels us to agree with Wilkinson's conclusions regarding the Waldenses and their Bible: "Thus when Christianity emerging from the long persecutions of pagan Rome, was raised to imperial favour by the Emperor Constantine, the Italic Church in northern Italy - later the Waldenses - is seen standing in opposition to papal Rome. Their Bible was of the family of the renowned Itala. It was that translation into Latin which represents the Received Text. Its very name "Itala" is derived from the Italic district, the regions of the Vaudois" ("Our Authorised Bible Vindicated", p 35). As to the purity of the Waldenses' Bible in relation to its contemporaries, let us hear from Rome's acclaimed authority, Augustine, to whom the Catholic Church loves to pay saintly homage. Around 400 AD he said: "Now among translations themselves the Italian [Itala] is to be preferred to the others, for it keeps closer to the words without prejudice to clearness of expression" ("Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers", [Christian Lit Edition] Vol. II p 542 - cited by Wilkinson) (ibid). (Let the reader take heed to the importance of this eulogy coming as it does from one of Rome's revered fathers. In contrast we can only marvel at the contempt and hatred later generated by Rome against the Bible which Augustine so justly acclaimed). Dr Scrivener confirms the antiquity of the Waldensian's Itala Bible: "The Latin Bible, the Italic, was translated from the Greek no later than 157 AD" ("Scrivener's Introduction", Vol. II p 43). It is difficult to imagine any Bibles being closer to the apostle's autographs than the Peshitta and the Itala for the translators of these Bibles could very well have been born during the lifetime of some of Christ's disciples. It is also reasonably assumed that 10
John, in his final years, assisted in collating the books of the New Testament Canon (Eusebius, "Ecclesiastical History", Book III Chapter 24). Therefore, Christians can be confident that when they read from the King James Version of the New Testament, or any other language translation of the Received Text, they are indeed reading the Word of God, for its pedigree goes right back to apostolic times. Truly we can endorse the sentiments of one of the world's most respected Christian commentators: "The Waldenses were among the first of the peoples of Europe to obtain a translation of the Holy Scriptures ... They had the truth unadulterated, and this rendered them the special objects of hatred and persecution ... Here for a thousand years, witnesses for the truth maintained the ancient faith ... But in a most wonderful manner it [God's Word] was preserved uncorrupted through all the ages of darkness" (White, "The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan", pp 65, 66, 69). How could things have been any different! Had not Jesus Christ promised: "My words shall not pass away"? (Matthew 24:35). (For a dramatic account of the way in which the Syriac Bible was preserved in isolation in India throughout the period of the Dark Ages, the author recommends his book, "The Inquisitive Christians", available from "New Millennium Publications" P.O. Box 290, Morisset. NSW. 2264. Australia). 11
Page 1 and 2: Table of Contents By way of introdu
Page 3 and 4: Section One Chapters One to Eleven
Page 5 and 6: Wycliffe's unpretentious priests gl
Page 7 and 8: Chapter Two Colet and Erasmus Desid
Page 9 and 10: friends rallied around him and with
Page 11 and 12: day but they have taken on a more v
Page 13 and 14: With Erasmus's translation, Tyndale
Page 15 and 16: Jane Seymour, the third of Henry's
Page 17 and 18: On March 27, 1555, at the tender ag
Page 19 and 20: attacked and destroyed monasteries
Page 21 and 22: convenient to quit his position as
Page 23 and 24: This was the apogee of Philip's rei
Page 25 and 26: • That Scripture can only be inte
Page 27 and 28: Finisterre in North Western Spain t
Page 29 and 30: negotiated with winds not always fa
Page 31 and 32: for Protestantism to bring forth a
Page 33 and 34: Section Two Chapters Twelve to Fift
Page 35 and 36: which they themselves have shortene
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Page 39 and 40: Wilkinson sees this as proof that e
Page 41: "Having continued his labours in Sc
Page 45 and 46: (By the late nineteenth century, th
Page 47 and 48: they not the fathers of the Roman C
Page 49 and 50: It is very important that the signi
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Page 53 and 54: family, the original of which is re
Page 55 and 56: A relatively small minority, repres
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Page 59 and 60: 17 Dr Schaff's attitude to Matthew
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