Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

in Northern Italy who refused to bow beneath its
rule? For this reason it sought the great reputation
Jerome enjoyed as a scholar.
Moreover, Jerome had been taught the
Scriptures by Gregory Nazianzen, who, in turn, had
been at great pains with two other scholars of
Caesarea to restore the library of Eusebius in that
city. With that library Jerome was well acquainted;
he describes himself as a great admirer of
Eusebius. While studying with Gregory, he had
translated from Greek into Latin the Chronicle of
Eusebius. And let it be remembered, in turn, that
Eusebius in publishing the Bible ordered by
Constantine, had incorporated in it the manuscripts
of Origen.[9]
In preparing the Latin Bible, Jerome would
gladly have gone all the way in transmitting to us
the corruptions in the text of Eusebius, but he did
not dare. Great scholars of the West were already
exposing him and the corrupted Greek
manuscripts.[10] Jerome especially mentions (Luke
2:33) (where the Received Text read: “And Joseph
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