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316 Evangelizology 1535 printing of the 1534 Olivétan proto-French “Geneva Bible” It must be noted, however, that the 1535 Olivétan version of the Bible (translated from the Greek) did not translate euvaggeli,zw as “evangelize” in Galatians 1, but rather as the French word for “announce.” Olivétan’s translation, however, was changed in the 1560 French Geneva version to include 4 of the 6 uses of the Greek euvaggeli,zw in Galatians 1 in the French Geneva Bible (one of the “minor revisions”) by either Jean Calvin, Theodore de Bèze, or Clément Marot (especially for the poetry).
Thomas P. Johnston 317 1. One of the problems with translating evangelizing in English is presumably that of a lack of usage of the term evangelize: a. David Barrett wrote a review of the English use of the word evangelize in his Evangelize! A Historical Survey of the Concept. In this book Barrett ascribed the first English use of the word evangelize to John Wycliffe: “In 1382 in England, John Wycliffe completed the first translation of the whole Bible in the English language, using the Latin Vulgate. In the earlier of his two extant versions, Wycliffe translated almost all usages of the Latin evangelizare (and hence the Greek euangelizein) into the new English word ‘euangelisen’ (in some orthographies, ‘evangelisen’).” 455 b. Wycliffe first edition (circa 1382) used evangelize as a transliteration the Latin Vulgate’s evangelizare. Wycliffe died in 1384. Then the second Wycliffe version, revised posthumously by John Purvey and other of Wycliffe’s followers in 1388 removed almost all the uses of evangelize (see sample page above from the 1850 critical edition the 1382 and 1388 Wycliffe Bibles side-by-side): “[The 1388 John Purvey revised Wycliffe] replaced all of these English words commencing ‘evangel-’ by, in most cases, ‘prechinge’, and sometimes by synonyms like ‘schewinge the Lord Jhesu’” 456 c. The change from “evangelize” to “preaching” continued through William Tyndale’s translation and “has been perpetuated in all subsequent Bible translations up to the present day” 457 Two points here: Barrett missed both the 1884 English John Darby translation of Luke 7:22 which used the word “evangelize” and the 1899 Roman Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible Luke 8:1 which used the word “evangelize” (recently, the 1999 Holman Christian Standard Bible used the word “evangelize” 6 times!). Listen to the concluding paragraphs of Barrett on this important word: “This deliberate removal of ‘euangelisen’ from the English Bible explains the almost total absence of the word ‘evangelize’ and derivatives from English church usage and English Christian vocabulary, language, and literature over the following 425 years. The words were not used at all by Chaucer or Shakespeare. When the Anglican Reformers drew up The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion in 1562 and when they produced The Book of Common Prayer in 1552, no such words were included. ‘Evangelize’ is absent also from The Westminster Confession and all other English-language statements emanating from the Protestant Reformation of the 16 th Century. “Rightly or wrongly, these words were construed by the Reformers as preserves of the Roman Church, as unreformed Latinized hybrids which therefore required to be reformed, replaced, and thoroughly translated into vernaculars. At the same time, however, this exclusion of ‘evangelize’ from the English vocabulary was also in part another consequence of the Reformer’s general disinterest in human activity relating to the Great Commission and their resulting neglect of foreign missions.” 458 d. In the French language, the 1530 Jacques Lefevre version (authorized by the King Francis I of France, and based on Jerome’s Vulgate) used the word “evangelize” 38 times, as noted above and below. e. The 1535 Olivétan459 Bible (a.k.a. French Geneva Bible) used by Calvin, which he slightly modified in 1560, used the word evangelize 13 times. By the way, the Olivétan was not merely a 455David B. Barrett, Evangelize! A Historical Survey of the Concept (Birmingham, AL: New Hope, 1987), 22. 456Ibid. 457Ibid. 458Ibid. 459It must be remembered that Louis Olivier [Pierre Robert] Olivétan shared the Gospel with his cousin Jean Calvin, was a schoolmaster in Neuchatel and in Geneva, was proficient in both Greek and Hebrew, was an evangelist involved in many mission trips to the Alps, and that he died of poisoning on a trip to Rome in 1538, three years after the first publication of his Bible 1535 (Samuel Lortsch, Histoire de la Bible en France; accessed: 4 March 2005; available at: http://www.bibliquest.org/Lortsch/Lortsch-Histoire_Bible_France-2.htm; Internet). As to Olivétan initiating Calvin in the Gospel, here is the exact text “C'est Olivétan qui, le premier, initia son cousin Jean Calvin à l'Évangile. Il lui fit ‘goûter quelque chose de la pure religion’, dit Théodore de Bèze. ‘Il lui conseilla de lire l'Écriture. Calvin, ayant suivi ce conseil, commença à se distraire des superstitions papales.’” “‘Quand Olivétan,’ a dit M. Doumergue, ‘n’aurait fait
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