Wordsworth, Dr. Charles (Bishop of St. Andrews), 112, 125 Worsley, J., his translation of the New Testament, 97 Wright, Dr. W., 109_n_, 112 Wright, Mr. W. A., 110, 113 Wycliffe, John, 13, 14 ---- his Bible, 16, 35 ---- preface to his Bible, 129 Z. Zurich Bible, 19 _W. Brendon and Son, Plymouth._ FOOTNOTES: [1] From the Latin for seventy, this being the supposed number of the translators. It is referred to as the translation of the Seventy Elders so early as the middle of the second century. See Justin Martyr, _Dialogue with Trypho_, c. 68. [2] See Philo Judæus, _Life of Moses_, book ii. Josephus, _Antiquities_, xii. ii. 5, 11, 12, 14. Eusebius, _Eccl. Hist._, v. 8. Josephus states that the translation was made by seventy-two elders in seventy-two days. The story as given in Eusebius is, that the seventy elders were placed apart in seventy different cells, that each translated the entire Scriptures, and that the seventy translations when compared were found to agree to a word. [3] And this he gave, not by any formal enactment, but by using Jerome’s translation as the basis of his own _Exposition of the Book of Job_. (See Gregory’s _Letter to Leander_, forming the preface to that work.) The old version of the Psalms retained its ground apparently from its close connection with the music of the Church. From a like cause the old version of the English Psalms, which in fact was made from the Latin of the Vulgate, retains its place in the Psalter of the Prayer Book. It should however be noted that it is but the translation of the translation of a translation. [4] _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, A.D. 709. [5] “I have seen a book at Crowland Abbey, which is kept there for a relic. The book is called _Saint Guthlake’s Psalter_, and I weene verily that it is a copy of the same that the king did translate; for it is neither English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, nor Dutch, but something sounding to our English; and as I have perceived since the time I was last there, being at Antwerp, the Saxon tongue doth sound likewise, and it is to ours partly agreeable.” The answer of John Lambert to the twenty-sixth of the Articles laid against him. (FOXE, _Acts and Monuments_, vol. v. p. 213.) [6] _The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester_, A.D. 699, and A.D. 714.