The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated From the Original Tongues; And With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated From the Original Tongues; And With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised<br><br>Other translations of the Old Testament into Greek were made A. D. From 128 to 200 It is generally believed that the church of''antioch was favoured with a Syrian version of the Bible in the year 100. The Ethiopians of Abys sinia''have''a version of the Bible which they ascribe to Frumentius of the fourth century. Chrysostom who lived in the end of the fourth and Theodoret who lived in the middle ofthe fifth century both inform us that''they had the Syrian Indian Persian Armenian Ethiopic Scythian and Samaritan versions. The ancient Egyptians had the Scriptures translated into their language. The Georgians have a version in their ancient language. The Old Testament of all these versions except the Syrian is''taken from the Septuagint The famous Latin translation of the Bible called the Vulgate which is now.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.