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(Vatican Radio) Among the many anniversaries of 2016, one in particular has passed unnoticed: the quincentenary of the first edition (editio princeps) of the Greek New Testament by Erasmus of Rotterdam.Listen to Devin Watkins' report on this historic work: Though not actually the first edition of a compiled New Testament in Greek, Erasmus’ editio princeps became an important landmark. Martin Luther used the second edition of Erasmus’ work for his translation of the New Testament into German, the so-called ‘September Testament’. The third edition was used as the textual base for the King James Version of the Bible.As an article in the Osservatore Romano notes, Erasmus of Rotterdam studied at Paris, Oxford, and in Italy and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1492 in the Augustinian Canons Regular. He was a constant critic of ecclesiastic institutions but maintained a healthy distance from Martin Luther and other reformers, with whom he engaged in fre...
(Vatican Radio) Among the many anniversaries of 2016, one in particular has passed unnoticed: the quincentenary of the first edition (editio princeps) of the Greek New Testament by Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Listen to Devin Watkins' report on this historic work:
Though not actually the first edition of a compiled New Testament in Greek, Erasmus’ editio princeps became an important landmark. Martin Luther used the second edition of Erasmus’ work for his translation of the New Testament into German, the so-called ‘September Testament’. The third edition was used as the textual base for the King James Version of the Bible.
As an article in the Osservatore Romano notes, Erasmus of Rotterdam studied at Paris, Oxford, and in Italy and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1492 in the Augustinian Canons Regular. He was a constant critic of ecclesiastic institutions but maintained a healthy distance from Martin Luther and other reformers, with whom he engaged in frequent polemics.
Already noted as a brilliant philologist and humanist, Erasmus was approached by Johann Froben of Basel in 1514, who asked him to assemble the Greek text of the New Testament for printing. Oddly enough, Erasmus called his first edition the Novum Instrumentum omne, or New Instrument, instead of New Testament, a name which changed with the second edition.
Erasmus hurriedly assembled the edition, basing the text on Greek manuscripts he had on hand, which were of dubious textual traditions. It became known as the textus receptus, or ‘received text’.
In reality, Erasmus used relatively-late miniscule manuscripts from the 12th century, rather than manuscripts from the third to fifth centuries, which scholars now hold to be more faithful to the original New Testament text.
In several places, Erasmus even corrected the Greek text with translated readings from the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome. One noteworthy example involves the final verses of the Book of Revelation, which were lacking in the codex Erasmus had borrowed from his friend Johannes Reuchlin. Despite these and other failings, most modern versions until the 19th century were translated from the Greek text of Erasmus’ New Testament.
But the editio princeps wasn’t the first Greek edition of the New Testament to be printed on the modern printing press. That honor belongs to the Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Alcalá de Henares. Under the direction of the Archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros, the New Testament section of the Complutensian was printed in January of 1514 in six volumes. But the necessary papal letter sanctioning its publication was only given in 1520 by Pope Leo X, because Erasmus had been given exclusive publication rights for four years by the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian.
The second through fifth editions – published in 1519, 1522, 1527, and 1535 respectively – included corrections of the Greek text. Interestingly, Erasmus made use of the Complutensian text for a number of the corrections, which even he recognized as belonging to a better and more trustworthy textual tradition.
No matter the problems of Erasmus' editio princeps, 500 years is still an anniversary to celebrate.
The celebration of the birth of Christ has been described as a missionary mandate on the part of the Christian faithful to continue Christ’s redemptive mission by extending the love and mercy of God to neighbours, especially the poor and the needy.This was the central message in the homily of Nigeria’s Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan, Gabriel 'Leke Abegunrin, during the celebration of the 2016 Christmas Day Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral Church, Oke Padi, Ibadan, Oyo State.According to the Metropolitan of Ibadan Archdiocese, the example of great love, the mercy and humility of Jesus, who in spite of being God, came into the world assuming human flesh and was born in the manger becomes a mission for all the faithful to extend the same to all persons. He emphasised: “What we see God do, we are expected to carry on.” The Archbishop continued, “there are no few opportunities to do this. The current state of our nation; the circumstances of the ...
The celebration of the birth of Christ has been described as a missionary mandate on the part of the Christian faithful to continue Christ’s redemptive mission by extending the love and mercy of God to neighbours, especially the poor and the needy.
This was the central message in the homily of Nigeria’s Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan, Gabriel 'Leke Abegunrin, during the celebration of the 2016 Christmas Day Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral Church, Oke Padi, Ibadan, Oyo State.
According to the Metropolitan of Ibadan Archdiocese, the example of great love, the mercy and humility of Jesus, who in spite of being God, came into the world assuming human flesh and was born in the manger becomes a mission for all the faithful to extend the same to all persons. He emphasised: “What we see God do, we are expected to carry on.” The Archbishop continued, “there are no few opportunities to do this. The current state of our nation; the circumstances of the lives of individuals makes this an essential duty for all Christians. “What Jesus brings to us at this time is peace. Peace among men,” said Archbishop Abegunrin.
The Archbishop also urged the faithful to think and care for the less privileged.
“We must remember that many people go to bed hungry every night; some people are living with disability; there are communities without health care centres; people spending hours looking for a bucket of water and those abandoned because of sickness, old age or other conditions of life,” the Archbishop said.
The Metropolitan of Ibadan called upon the faithful to be concerned about the happenings around them and to be security conscious; eschew hatred, avoid rumours; shun selfishness, greed and materialism. He urged the faithful to be watchful, careful, patient and courageous. The faithful must be Christ-like in all facets of Life.
(CNSNg.org)
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Catholic Bishops have told media in Kinshasa that they are confident an accord between President Joseph Kabila and the opposition will be signed. If the agreement is signed, sources in Kinshasa told Aljeezera, it would involve President Joseph Kabila remaining in office until the end of next year, 2017. As it is, it would appear for now, that the political parties and Kabila’s government are bogged down on issues of power-sharing during the transition period. At the heart of the political crisis is President Kabila’ second and final presidential term of office which has expired. Congo's constitutional court approved a request by the electoral commission to postpone elections till 2018. President Kabila says the government needs more time to overcome the massive logistic and financial challenges to holding elections. The opposition thinks Kabila is simply trying to cling to power beyond his constitutional...
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Catholic Bishops have told media in Kinshasa that they are confident an accord between President Joseph Kabila and the opposition will be signed.
If the agreement is signed, sources in Kinshasa told Aljeezera, it would involve President Joseph Kabila remaining in office until the end of next year, 2017. As it is, it would appear for now, that the political parties and Kabila’s government are bogged down on issues of power-sharing during the transition period.
At the heart of the political crisis is President Kabila’ second and final presidential term of office which has expired. Congo's constitutional court approved a request by the electoral commission to postpone elections till 2018.
President Kabila says the government needs more time to overcome the massive logistic and financial challenges to holding elections. The opposition thinks Kabila is simply trying to cling to power beyond his constitutional mandate. They have called on demonstrations in which several protestors have died.
The Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic are mediating the talks in an attempt at preventing the country plunging itself into a civil war.
Pope Francis has in recent weeks made three appeals on the situation in Congo. The Holy Father recently met, in private, Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani who is the President of the Congolese Bishops’ Conference. Utembi Tapa was accompanied to that meeting by Bishop Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the Bishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro.
After the meeting, Pope Francis on 21 December, re-echoed his plea for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo the urging the people of Congo to “be (artisans) authors of reconciliation and peace.”
(Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va)
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