580th ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, MAY 1st, 1916, at 4.30 p.m. 



The Rev. Prebendary H. E. Fox, M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Chairman introduced the Rev. H. J. White, M.A., Professor of 

 New Testament Exegesis, King's College, London, and invited him to 

 deliver his address on "The Connection between the Vulgate Version of 

 the Bible and the Theology of the Western Church." 



THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE VULGATE 

 VERSION OF THE BIBLE AND THE THEOLOGY 

 OF THE WESTERN CHURCH By the Rev. H. J. 

 White, M.A., D.D., Professor of New Testament Exegesis, 

 King's College, London. 



I HAVE ventured to speak of the connection between these 

 two facts rather than of the influence of one upon the other ; 

 for it is difficult to say how far the Vulgate has influenced 

 Western theology, and how far Western theology has influenced 

 the Vulgate. Each has influenced the other; each has reacted 

 upon the other ; a translation will affect doctrine, and doctrine 

 will affect translators. The main point to which I wish to draw 

 attention is the intimate connection between the two ; the fact 

 that some distinctive features of Latin theology are bound up 

 with the Latin version of the Bible, and bound up with texts 

 where that version differs from the original, or at any rate gives 

 but one out of several possible translations. 



When we speak of the Vulgate, or of Latin theology, we 

 must bear in mind what a vast realm is embraced by the words. 

 For more than a thousand years the Vulgate was the sole form 

 in which the Bible was known to Western Christendom ; it is 

 still the official version of the Roman Church, and is carried by 

 her missionaries over the whole world, and employed by them in 

 teaching ; directly or indirectly, it is the parent of all the verna- 

 cular versions of Western Europe, the Gothic version of Ulfilas 



