{"id":93,"date":"2010-12-10T03:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T03:31:31","slug":"augustines-disappointment-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Augustine&#8217;s Disappointment in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SaintAugustine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"SaintAugustine\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SaintAugustine-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SaintAugustine-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SaintAugustine.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augustine as depicted by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1480)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A while back, I was listening to an audio course on &#8220;The Confessions of  Augustine&#8221;.\u00a0 One thing that stuck with me was this quote (in the  accompany study guide):<br \/>\n&#8220;Because his mother was a Christian, he first turned to the Bible but is disappointed by the quality of the language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If  I recall, the gist was that Augustine was an expert in Latin, Greek,  and rhetoric, and I presume it was the Latin translations he had of the  Bible as a youngster or young man, did not meet up to the what he would  consider the standards of Cicero, Virgil, etc&#8230;\u00a0 He points out that  when he was young, he was not taught morals, but how to write great  quality Latin.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he turned to Christianity at about  the age of 32 from a rather rugged life and became quite an apologist.\u00a0  So the point is that the Bible translation (of his day) influenced his  life and perhaps delayed his spiritual journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I was listening to an audio course on &#8220;The Confessions of Augustine&#8221;.\u00a0 One thing that stuck with me was this quote (in the accompany study guide): &#8220;Because his mother was a Christian, he first turned to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=93\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[31,30,32],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-fathers","tag-latin-translation","tag-st-augustine","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}