erasmus and rev.

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Mon Sep 6 14:27:02 EDT 1999


At 08:56 PM 9/5/99 -0400, Kevin W. Woodruff wrote:

>I was always under the impression that Erasmus had in his work _Annotations
>on the New Testament_ (Novum Testamentum Annotationes) confessed (forgive me
>if my Latin is faulty):
>
>...quanquam in calce hujus libri, nonulla verba reperi apud nostros, quae
>aberant in Graecis exemplaribus, ea tamen ex latinis adjecimus."
>
>and that Erasmus called the manuscript his "exemplar vetustissimum"

Please forgive me if my Latin is non-existant. What do the above quotes say?

Jonathan




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