Latin in Barnabas

Jason Hare parousia_occ at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 20 03:29:11 EDT 2000


One and all,

Why is it that in the English translation by Kirsopp
Lake (unedited) in the Loeb Series 10.6-10.8 are in
Latin?  I have the newer version also, which has it in
English.  Why would he deliver an old Latin
translation instead of the English (for the sake of
his readers)?

Jason Hare
Ozark Christian College

Text: (10.6) 'Sed nec "leporem manducabis."  Non eris,
inquit, corruptor puerorum nec similabis talibus. 
Quia lepus singulis annis facit ad adsellandum singula
foramina; et quotquot annis vivit, totidem foramina
facit.  (7) Sed "nec beluam, inquit, manducabis"; hoc
est non eris moecus aut adulter, nec corruptor, nec
similabis talibus.  Quia haec bestia alternia annis
mutat naturam et fit modo masculus, modo femina.  (8)
Sed et quod dicit mustelam odibis.  Non eris, inquit,
talis, qui audit iniquitatem et loquitur immunditiam. 
Non inquit adhaerebis immundis qui iniquitatem faciunt
ore suo.'  (Pardon any spelling errors; I typed this,
not knowing Latin.)

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