Many of the professors were good fellows, that liked grog fully as well as Greek, and understood short whist, and five and ten quite as intimately as they knew the vulgate, or the confessions of St. Augustine -they made no ostentacious display of their pious zeal, but whenever they were not fasting, or praying, or something of that kind, they were always pleasant and agreeable; and to do them justice, never refused, by any chance, an invitation to dinner-no matter at what inconvenience.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Wycliffe's Bible, which is translated from the vulgate, reads thus: "A man whanne he was in honour understood it not; he is compared to unwise beestis, and is maad lijk to tho."
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
He wrote-1. Hebrew notes on Genesis and Exodus, with special reference to the text of the vulgate.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.