Editing Vulgate (section)

{{Short description|Translation of the Bible by Jerome}}
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The '''Vulgate''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|ʌ|l|g|eɪ|t|,_|-|g|ə|t}}){{efn|Also called {{lang|la|Biblia Vulgata}} ("Bible in common language"; {{IPA|la|ˈbɪbli.a wʊlˈɡaːta| lang}}), sometimes referred to as the '''Latin Vulgate'''}} is a late-4th-century [[Bible translations into Latin|Latin translation]] of the [[Bible]]. It is largely the work of Saint [[Jerome]] who, in&nbsp;382, had been commissioned by [[Pope Damasus I]] to revise the {{lang|la|[[Vetus Latina]]}} [[Gospel]]s used by the [[Diocese of Rome|Roman Church]]. Later, of his own initiative, Jerome extended this work of revision and translation to include most of the [[books of the Bible]]. 

The Vulgate became progressively adopted as the Bible text within the [[Western Church]]. Over succeeding centuries, it eventually eclipsed the {{lang|la|Vetus Latina}} texts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=vetuslatina.org |url=http://www.vetuslatina.org/ |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=vetuslatina.org}}</ref> By the 13th&nbsp;century it had taken over from the former version the designation {{lang|la|versio vulgata}} (the "version commonly used"<ref name="LewisShort">{{Cite web |last1=T. Lewis |first1=Charlton |author-link=Charlton Thomas Lewis |last2=Short |first2=Charles |title=A Latin Dictionary {{!}} vulgo |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=vulgo2 |access-date=5 October 2019 |website=Perseus Digital Library}}</ref>) or {{lang|la|vulgata}} for short.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ackroyd |first1=Peter R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnG2067meU0C |title=The Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 1, From the Beginnings to Jerome |last2=Evans |first2=C. F. |last3=Lampe |first3=Geoffrey William Hugo |last4=Greenslade |first4=Stanley Lawrence |orig-year=1970|year=1980|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-09973-8 |volume=1 |language=en}}</ref> The Vulgate also contains some ''Vetus Latina'' translations that Jerome did not work on.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-14 |title=Vulgate {{!}} Description, Definition, Bible, History, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vulgate |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en}}</ref>

The [[Catholic Church]] affirmed the Vulgate as its official [[Latin]] Bible at the [[Council of Trent]] (1545–1563), though there was no single authoritative edition of the book at that time in any language.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Metzger |first=Bruce M. |author-link=Bruce M. Metzger |title=The Early Versions of the New Testament |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1977 |location=Oxford |pages=348}}</ref> The Vulgate did eventually receive an official edition to be [[Promulgation (Catholic canon law)|promulgated]] among the Catholic Church as the [[Sixtine Vulgate]] (1590), then as the [[Clementine Vulgate]] (1592), and then as the ''[[Nova Vulgata]]'' (1979). The Vulgate is still currently used in the [[Latin Church]]. The Clementine edition of the Vulgate became the standard Bible text of the [[Roman Rite]] of the Catholic Church, and remained so until 1979 when the ''Nova Vulgata'' was promulgated.