Table Of ContentCOLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS
VOLUME 48
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COLLECTED WORKS OF
ERASMUS
NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP
General Editor Robert D. Sider
PARAPHRASE ON LUKE 11-24
translated and annotated by
Jane E. Phillips
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Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536
[Works]
Collected works of Erasmus
Translation of : Paraphrasis in Novum Testamentum Des. Erasmi Roterdami.
Includes bibliograpical references and index.
Contents: v. 48. Paraphrase on Luke / translated and annotated
by Jane E. Phillips.
ISBN 0-8020-3653-8 (v. 48)
i. Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 - Collected works. I. Title.
PA85OO 1974 i99'.492 C74-oo63a6-x rev
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Collected Works of Erasmus
The aim of the Collected Works of Erasmus
is to make available an accurate, readable English text
of Erasmus' correspondence and his
other principal writings. The edition is planned
and directed by an Editorial Board, an Executive Committee,
and an Advisory Committee.
EDITORIAL BOARD
William Barker, University of King's College
Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto
James M. Estes, University of Toronto
Charles Fantazzi, East Carolina University
James K. Farge, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
John N. Grant, University of Toronto
Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto
Brad Inwood, University of Toronto
James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Chairman
John H. Munro, University of Toronto
John O'Malley, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Mechtilde O'Mara, University of Toronto
Jane E. Phillips, University of Kentucky
Erika Rummel, Wilfrid Laurier University
R.J. Schoeck, Lawrence, Kansas
Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College
James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto
James M. Estes, University of Toronto
Charles Fantazzi, East Carolina University
Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto
Bill Harnum, University of Toronto Press
James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
George Meadows, University of Toronto Press
John O'Malley, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Mechtilde O'Mara, University of Toronto
Jane E. Phillips, University of Kentucky
Erika Rummel, Wilfrid Laurier University
R.J. Schoeck, Lawrence, Kansas
R.M. Schoeffel, University of Toronto Press, Chairman
Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College
James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Maria Cytowska, University of Warsaw
Anthony Graf ton, Princeton University
H.J. de Jonge, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
Robert M. Kingdon, University of Wisconsin
Maurice Lebel, Universite Laval
Jean-Claude Margolin, Centre d'etudes superieures de la
Renaissance de Tours
Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary
Clarence H. Miller, Saint Louis University
John Rowlands, The British Museum
J.S.G. Simmons, Oxford University
John Tedeschi, University of Wisconsin
J. Trapman, Conseil International ASD
J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute
Timothy J. Wengert, The Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Philadelphia
NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
J.J. Bateman, University of Illinois
H.J. de Jonge, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary
Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale University
Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College, Chairman
Contents
Translator's Note
by Jane E. Phillips
ix
Paraphrase on Luke / Paraphrasis in Lucam
translated and annotated by Jane E. Phillips
1
The Sequence and Dates of the Publication
of the Paraphrases
282
Works Frequently Cited
283
Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works
286
Index of Scriptural Passages Cited
291
Index of Greek and Latin Words Cited
303
General Index
309
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Translator's Note
This volume contains the second half of the translation of Erasmus' Para-
phrase on the Gospel of Luke, with annotation for the modern reader. The
original Paraphrasis was published as an undivided whole, but the CWE edi-
tors recognized from the outset that translation and annotation of the whole
would not be possible within a single volume. The collaborators charged
with the two volumes that were designated for this Paraphrase, CWE 47 and
48, decided that a fair division could be made at nearly the midpoint of
the text, that is, between chapters 10 and 11; but the reader should under-
stand that this division represents nothing in Erasmus' own work, nor does
it claim to stand for a modern analysis of his rhetorical or thematic purpose.
The present translation begins, therefore, in medias res.
The competing pressures of modern academic life have resulted in
the appearance of the second half of the Paraphrase on Luke some years
before the first half can be expected. The Introduction and the Translator's
Note to CWE 47 will introduce the whole Paraphrase and its annotation to an
English-speaking readership more fully, and, where what is said here may
go astray, shed more light. The reader is referred to that as yet unwritten
material.
In August 1523, barely eight months after the publication of the Para-
phrase on John, the Froben press in Basel published the first edition of the
Paraphrase on Luke. Three more editions, lightly corrected, appeared during
Erasmus' lifetime as part of Froben's re-editions of the complete Paraphrases
in 1524, 1534, and 1535.* Following the practice of CWE, the text translated
here is that of 1535, the last one to which Erasmus himself is likely to have
* * * * *
i For the whole history of the publication of the Paraphrases, see the essay by
R.A.B. Mynors, The Publication of the Latin Paraphrases' CWE 42 xx-xxix.
