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  • n  the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church

  • It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate.
  • In simple, understandable vulgate the old man cried to his audience while the gold cross hung from his neck, swinging: "You can't find Christ on Park Avenue.
  • Short Bibles, revised Bibles and vulgate Bibles are by no means newthe King James version (1611) was undoubtedly strikingly modern in its time.

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