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Jacobus Billius, De sua priorum 18 (21) Irenaei capitum translatione, suisque in eadem scholiis, admonitio

Editors' preface

JACOBI BILLII De sua priorum 18 (21) Irenaei capitum translatione, suisque in eadem scholiis admonitio.

Jacobus Billius: Admonition concerning his translation of the first 18 (21) chapters of Irenaeus, and his scholia on them.

Etsi veteres Graecorum theologorum interpretes, magna ex parte, dum verbum verbo reddere student, non satis eleganter quod volunt exprimunt, imo etiam plerumque Graeca non assequuntur : tamen eos vel hoc uno nomine non prorsus repudiandos et aspernandos esse semper judicavi, quod innumerabiles maculas, quae typographorum negligentia optimos quosque auctores occuparunt, consultis illis promptissime deleri posse persaepe sum expertus. Qua quidem in sententia, si is quoque fuisset, qui octodecim haec prima D. Irenaei capita non ita pridem Latinitate donavit, non tam turpiter

Although the ancient translators of the Greek theologians, in great part, while they study to render word for word, do not express what they wish with sufficient elegance, nay even for the most part fail to attain the sense of the Greek: nevertheless I have always judged that they ought not to be altogether rejected and despised on this one account at least, because I have very often experienced that innumerable blots, which through the negligence of printers have seized upon all the best authors, can be most promptly effaced when those translators are consulted. And if he too had been of this opinion who not so long ago endowed these first eighteen chapters of Saint Irenaeus with Latinity, he would not so shamefully

et flagitiose tot locis lapsus fuisset : idque potius studuisset, ut ex emendatis Latinis depravata Graeca, quam ex corruptis Graecis emendata Latina corrigeret. Quod quoniam facere neglexit, ego amico cuidam, ut ea denuo verterem a me postulanti, hanc qualemcunque operam denegare non potui. Brevissima etiam scholia adjeci, ex quibus proclive, ni fallor, erit intelligere, me non temere multa paulo aliter atque apud Epiphanium habentur, interpretari. Vale, Christiane lector, et his fruere.

and disgracefully have slipped in so many places: and would rather have studied to correct the depraved Greek from the emended Latin than the emended Latin from the corrupt Greek. And since he neglected to do this, when a certain friend requested of me that I should translate them anew, I could not refuse this labour, such as it is. I have also added very brief scholia, from which it will be easy, unless I am mistaken, to understand that not rashly do I translate many things somewhat otherwise than they stand in Epiphanius. Farewell, Christian reader, and enjoy these things.

Editors' notes and page, col. 1339

Footnotes

(1) ‹anchor: Hieronymi testimonium› · call in col 1339

Comm. in cap. XXXVI Ezech.

Commentary on Ezekiel, chapter 36.

(printed under page 678)

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Editors' notes and page, col. 1340

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