Sixto-Clementine Vulgate

Vulgate Clementine, edition from 1714
Prologue to the Gospel of John, Vulgate Clementine, edition from 1922

Vulgata Sixto-Clementina, is the edition of Latin Vulgate from 1592, prepared by Pope Clement VIII. It was the second edition of the Vulgate authorised by this Pope, and it was used until the 20th century.

Clementine edition

The Sistine Vulgate prepared by Pope Sixtus V was edited in 1590 but it was unsatisfactory from a textual point of view.[1] As a result this edition was short-lived.[2]
Clement VIII (1592–1605) ordered Franciscus Toletus, Augustinus Valerius, Fredericus Borromaeus, Robertus Bellarmino, Antonius Agellius, and Petrus Morinus to make corrections and to prepare a revision.[3] The revision was based on the Hentenian edition. It was printed on 9 November 1592, with a preface written by Cardinal Bellarmine. The misprints of this edition were partly eliminated in a second (1593) and a third (1598) edition.[4]

The Clementine Vulgate contained in the Appendix additional apocryphal books: Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras.[5] It contained also Psalterium Gallicanum, as did the majority of the early editions of Vulgate.

It contains texts of the Acts 15:34[6] and the Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5:7.[7]

It was issued with the Bull, Cum Sacrorum (9 November 1592), which claimed that every subsequent edition must be assimillated to this one, no word of the text may be changed, nor even variant readings printed in the margin.[8]

It is cited in all critical editions and it is designated by siglum vgc or vgcl.[9]

Some differences from the Vulgata Sixtina

Vulgata SixtinaVulgata Clementina
Book of Genesis 18[10]
18,2tabernaculi suitabernaculi
18,2in terrain terram
18,4laventur pedes vestrilavate pedes vestros
18,5conforteturconfortate
18,5loquutuslocutus
18,2GomorrhaeorumGomorrhae
18,28quiapropter
Book of Exodus 11
11,14constituit tete constituit
11,16venerantvenerunt
11,22et eripuiteripuit
11,25liberavitcognovit

Reception

The Clementine edition differs from the Sistine edition in about 3,000 places (according to Carlo Vercellone).[8] According to Bruce M. Metzger it differs in some 4,900 variants,[11] according to Kurt Aland in about 5,000 variants.[12]

The opportunity was too good for Protestants to miss, and Thomas James in his "Bellum Papale sive Concordia discors" (London, 1600), upbraids the two Popes on their high pretensions and palpable failure, possibly of both of them.[8] He gave a long list of the differences (about 2,000) between these two editions.[13] Translators of King James Version in the preface to the first edition from 1611 accused the pope of perversion of the Holy Scripture.[14]

The Clementine Vulgate was criticised by such textual critics as Richard Bentley, John Wordsworth, Henry Julian White, Samuel Berger, and Peter Corssen.[15]

The Clementine Vulgate remained the official Latin Bible text of the Roman Catholic Church until the end of the 20th century, when the Nova Vulgata was issued. In 2001 the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Liturgiam authenticam announced that the Nova Vulgata is an official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 2 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 64.
  2. ↑ Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977, p. 348.
  3. ↑ Illustrations of Biblical Literature, vol. II, Rev. James Townley, 1856
  4. ↑ Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977, p. 349.
  5. ↑ Praefatio, Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1983, p. XX. ISBN 3-438-05303-9
  6. ↑ UBS3, 478
  7. ↑ Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977, p. 351.
  8. 1 2 3 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament 2 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 65.
  9. ↑ K. Aland (ed.), E. Nestle, (1991). Novum Testamentum Graece (ed. 26). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 19*. [NA26]
  10. ↑ Quentin, Henri (1922). Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate (in French). Rome: Desclée. p. 195. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  11. ↑ Metzger, Bruce M.; Bart D. Ehrman (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
  12. ↑ Aland, Kurt (1989). Der Text des Neuen Testaments. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 196. ISBN 3-438-06011-6.
  13. ↑ Thomas James, A Treatise of the Corruptions of Scripture, Councils, and Fathers, by the Prelates, Pastors, and Fathers, p. 170.
  14. ↑ KJV-Preface 14:19–21
  15. ↑ Kenyon, F. G. (1939). Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts (4th ed.). London. p. 188. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  16. ↑ Liturgiam authenticam

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