The other example is in S. Matthew, 1the 4. Chapter. 16. verse: wherein you have ⟨p. 376⟩also followed the Greek rather then the latin, translating not according to most of your latin Testaments, which I have seen, the people that walked in darkness, but after the Greek, the people that sat in darkness. A small matter in it self, I grant, yet great enough to show that you have not so precisely followed the latin translation. as you would seem: which also in other places appeareth, by comparing your translation with that. For in the very first Chapter of S. Matthew, the 19. ver. you have omitted these words,2 Her husband, which your latin books have truly translated according to the greek. Whereof reason it were, that you should be accountable, for what cause you have removed those words clean out of the text, if they were not rather left out by oversight. For I trust you are not ashamed that Joseph should be called the husband of the blessed virgin Mary. Again in the 13. to the Rom. v. 9. instauratur, you translate, is comprised, by no grammar, I am sure, nor dictionary, I think. The sense, I grant, is true, and well agreeth with the Greek, but the latin word is left. If you listed not to translate, is renewed, or repaired, as the ⟨p. 377⟩word signifieth, you might have kept the word, and according to your new found manner of translating and speaking have translated, instaurated. Such examples are there in your translation many moe, if we should peruse the whole, which is not necessary. Neither have I much blamed your translation in this respect, Master Rainolds, for not jumping always with your latin, as you have untruly told your reader: but for leaving the Greek, and following the latin, translating only a bare, (I will not speak as you do, a bald) translation, and for translating it after such a fashion, as never scripture was translated, nor any other book I suppose: and for applying the text most absurdly and violently to some colourable maintenance of your Antichristian Church and religion.
The other example is in S. Matthewe, 1the 4. Chapter. 16. verse: wherein you haue ⟨p. 376⟩also followed the Greeke rather then the latine, translating not according to moste of your latine Testaments, which I haue seene, the people that walked in darknes, but after the Greeke, the people that sat in darknes. A small matter in it felfe, I graunt, yet great enough to shew that you haue not so preciselie followed the latine translation. as you would seeme: which also in other places appeereth, by comparing your translation with that. For in the verie first Chapter of S. Matthew, the 19. ver. you haue omitted these wordes,2 Her husband, which your latine bookes haue truelie translated according to the greeke. Wherof reason it were, that you should be accountable, for what cause you haue remooued those wordes cleane out of the text, if they were not rather left out by ouersight. For I trust you are not ashamed that Ioseph should be called the husband of the blessed virgine Marie. Againe in the 13. to the Rom. v. 9. instauratur, you translate, is comprised, by no grammar, I am sure, nor dictionary, I think. The sense, I graunt, is true, and well agreeth with the Greeke, but the latine worde is left. If you listed not to translate, is renewed, or repared, as the ⟨p. 377⟩word signifieth, you might haue kept the worde, and according to your new found manner of translating and speaking haue translated, instaurated. Such examples are there in your translation manie moe, if we should peruse the wholl, which is not necessarie. Neither haue I much blamed your translation in this respect, Master Rainolds, for not iumping alwaies with your latine, as you haue vntruelie tould your reader: but for leauing the Greeke, and following the latine, translating onely a bare, (I wil not speake as you doe, a bald) translation, and for translating it after such a fashion, as neuer scripture was translated, nor any other booke I suppose: and for applying the text moste absurdlie and violentlie to some colourable maintenance of your Antichristian Church and religion.
- 1pag. 470. &c.
- 2[Greek or Hebrew]. Vir cius.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Vir cius.
