In his Revisions (aka Retractiones), Augustine offers a number of corrections to his previous work.  He is the only author that comes to min...

Abbot Pirminius , also known as Saint Pirmin , (c. 670 to 753)  is attributed with a fascinating treatise that has attached to it the title,...

The American Ecclesiastical Review , Vol. XVII ( Vol. VII of new series ) (1897) included an article, "The Decision of the Holy Office ...

In a previous post , I focused on the secondary (with a nod to the tertiary) literature on the relationship of Stunica's alleged testimo...

Harry Sysling in Tehiyyat Ha-metim : The Resurrection of the Dead in the Palestinian Targums of the Pentateuch and Parallel Traditions in Cl...

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae does not provide any examples of pre-incarnation Greek writers who use the phrase "the second death....

The phrase "second death" appears in four verses in Revelation: Revelation 2:11 [KJV] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the S...

In a recent video, Nick Sayers points out that  my recent post on the Complutensian Polyglot and the Johannine Comma  does not interact with...

 Vetus Latina at 1 John 5:7-8 is very messy. (Vetus Latina, 26.1, p. 363 ) ( Vetus Latina, 26.1, pp. 364-65 ) Note well that there is not a ...

Codex Perpinianensis is dated to the second half of the 12th century and referred to as "VL 54 (p)."  It is available from the Fre...

  Codex Gigas is considered an "Old Latin" edition.  It contains the following reading for Revelation 16:5: ( image 551/629 ) Et ...

2 Maccabees 9 describes Antiochus: 2 Maccabees 9:1-6 About that time Antiochus retreated in disgrace from the region of Persia. He had ente...

I thought I would check the Vetus Latina manuscripts ( a helpful list can be found here ) to see what they actually say it when it comes to ...

Lorenzo Valla's annotations on the New Testament, as published by Erasmus, included only about one third of one page on 1 John: ( Folio ...

Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was arguably the leading expert on translation from Greek to Latin in the 15th century.  His translation of th...

 As I was looking for something else, I happened across an image  containing the end of 1 John and the beginning of 2 John in a copy of Alcu...

Isidore of Seville (560-636) is one of the most influential western theologians of the late patristic period.  He was a noted linguist, but ...

Isidore of Seville (560-636) is one of the most influential western theologians of the late patristic period.  One of his major scholarly fo...

There are extremely few marginal notes regarding the reading of the text in the Complutensian Polyglot.  One of those very few notes is foun...