Latin in Barnabas

Jason Hare parousia_occ at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 20 14:17:57 EDT 2000


George,

It was the older version from 1949.  The newer one
that I have is the 1998 printing.

Sincerely,
Jason

--- Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/20/2000 1:56:36 AM Central
> Standard Time, 
> parousia_occ at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> << 
>  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)?
>   >>
> 
> The introductory notes state that there was a Latin
> version extant in one 
> copy only.  Why he would have Latin in the middle of
> the English, however, is 
> a puzzle.  Latin was once the language of
> scholarship, and the tradition died 
> hard.  I seem to recall a story about C.S. Lewis
> that he was allowed to use a 
> Latin translation of the Greek for some work as an
> aid -- my memory of this 
> is somewhat fuzzy since I thought it was a cute
> story of little importance.  
> Then again, perhaps it was a printing error.  What
> printing was this?
> 
> gfsomsel
> 

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