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n. - The Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century.

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  • Vulgate comes from a Latin word meaning “common, ” because Jerome’s translation used the Latin of everyday speech.
  • The end of the thousand-year reign of the Latin Vulgate unleashed a flood of vernacular translations of the
  • For -- confirming the reasonableness of "contentment." and it is certain -- Vulgate and other old versions support this reading.
  • I recall reading somewhere that the Vulgate is much much easier to read than Cicero, as word order in xtian Latin is much less free.
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