In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum.
Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. Omnia per ipsum facta sunt, et sine ipso factum est nihil quod factum est; in ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux hominum; et lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt.
Fuit homo missus a Deo cui nomen erat Joannes. Hic venit in testimonium, ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine, ut omnes crederent per illum. Non erat ille lux, sed ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine.
Erat lux vera quae illuminat omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum. In mundo erat, et mundus per ipsum factus est et mundus eum non cognovit. In propria venit, et sui eum non receperunt.
Quotquot autem receperunt eum, dedit eis potestatem filios Dei fieri; his qui credunt in nomine eius, qui non ex sanquinibus, neque ex voluntate carnis, neque ex voluntate viri, sed ex deo nati sunt.
Et verbum caro factum est et habitabit in nobis; et vidimus gloriam eius gloiram quasi Unigenti a Patre, plenum gratiae et veritatis.
Deo Gratias.
Initium sancti evangelii secundum Joannem
Joann. 1,1-14
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several obvious errors in text, on quick reading:
sanguinibus not sanquinibus
habitavit not habitabit
gloriam not gloiram
Unigeniti not Unigenti
conor » Thanks for the edits — I just sort of found it in an online Latin Mass somewhere and copied-and-pasted it. I didn’t do any editing. While I did study Latin for three years in school, I have lost it all to time.
Thanks for the quote and the acceptance of suggestion. I needed the exact words because there is a more fundamental error, not in the Latin but in English, but not in Spanish.
“In the beginning was the Word…” is wrong, “In the beginning was the Verb…”
Word is normally a label of a thing or object, verb implies action. Your view of God tells you which is more appropriate.
My sister is a nun of the “Incarnate Verb” in Spanish, Verbo Encarnado.
Philosophy is not as important as it used to be in Medieval times. Hard to imagine that many of us grew up thinking how “advanced” we are compared to the “Dark Ages”, except when it comes to Theology and Philosophy -they could wonder how do we tell what is true? How soon will we include Euthanasia in Medi-Care? Rhetorical, of course!