Book XXXVII: The Latin Overwrite
The Mistranslation That Built a Treasury. Book XXXVII of the Foundation of Asha's Codex, The Library That Does Not Burn. metanoeite rendered "do penance"; the sacrament, the treasury, the indulgence; Thesis 1; and the council that ratified it after the correction was public.
Read Book XXXVII in full at foundationofasha.com → These lines are its claims, one sentence each; the argument behind each one is there.
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1The Greek at Matthew 4:17 is metanoeite.
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2The Vulgate's poenitentiam agite converts an intransitive interior act into a transitive performance with an accusative object, and an object can be specified, graded, quantified, and priced..
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3The semantic gap was identified in Latin, by Latin Christians, before the Vulgate existed.
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4Jerome most probably inherited the phrase rather than coining it.
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5Jerome was not a forger and the Vulgate was not a fraud, the commission was overdue, Hebraica veritas was correct and professionally costly, and he recorded his own doubts in writing before beginning.
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6The doctrine was not invented by the mistranslation; the mistranslation made the doctrine readable in scripture, which converted a contestable tradition into an apparent divine command.
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7The penitential economy is a five-floor load path, act, satisfaction, temporal punishment, treasury, indulgence, and each floor depends on the one below, terminating in a Latin imperative.
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8The treasury of merit was formalized by Clement VI in Unigenitus Dei Filius on 27 January 1343, and extended to souls in purgatory by Sixtus IV in Salvator noster in 1476.
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9An indulgence presupposes the entire chain by definition.
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10The Reformation's opening sentence is a philological argument.
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11Luther stated in writing where he got the reading, the letter to Staupitz of 30 May 1518 prefacing the Resolutiones, whose modern editors identify Erasmus as the source.
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12Rome's first formal answer condemned a claim about the contents of scripture with a censure rather than a demonstration.
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13On 8 April 1546 the Council of Trent declared the Vulgate pro authentica in public lectures, disputations, sermons, and expositions, and forbade interpretation against the church's received sense.
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14The "they could not have known" defence is foreclosed by the Complutensian Polyglot.
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15The corrected edition Trent ordered arrived forty-four years late, was withdrawn within weeks, and was replaced in 1592 by a text differing in roughly six thousand places.
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16A textual question was converted into a jurisdictional one by four locks.
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17The audit of other Latin seams returns four different verdicts, including an explicit null.
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18Rome corrected the principle in 1943 and the text in 1979.
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19The Nova Vulgata still reads Paenitentiam agite at Matthew 3:2 and 4:17.
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20An institution's honesty is measured at the moment the correction is expensive.
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