Olivetanus

Olivetanus, the future translator of the Bible, he probably owed both the first impulse toward legal studies and the enkindling of his interest in the Sacred Scriptures.

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Next to the Bible, translated originally by Olivetanus, and in its successive editions rendered more conformable to the Hebrew and Greek texts, the "Christian Institutes" exerted the most powerful influence.

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

For, while Olivetanus in his admirable version laid the foundation upon which all the later and more accurate translations have been reared, by the excellence of his modes of expression he exerted an influence upon the French language perhaps not inferior to that of

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

Olivetanus, of which we shall have occasion to speak in another chapter.

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

French reformed liturgy, and, two years later, the Protestant translation of the Bible into the French language by Olivetanus. [

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird