Calvin Synod Herald, 1974 (74. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1974-12-01 / 12. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 5 Beginnings of the Hungarian Bible Translation IV. Bible Translations Since the Reformation The Vizsolv Bible was revised and published about 300 times in Hungary and abroad. This Bible became a beloved treasure of Hungarian Protestantism. After the Vizsoly translation, György Komáromi Csipkés translated the Bible and printed it in Leyden in 1718 (1685 appears on the title page).1 In Í718, twelve cases (2,915 copies) of this Bible arrived at the Hungarian border. Out of this number, only thirtyone copies arrived in Debrecen; the rest were confiscated under the order of Gábor Erdődy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Eger. The King ordered the release of the Bibles but Erdődy’s successor, Count Ferenc Barkóczy, in the presence of 140 priests ordered these Bibles burned. Only one copy was saved and the cover of another copy was found.2 Another shipment of 905 copies of this Bible arrived in Debrecen on August 9, 1789. These Bibles were not wide spread but became collectors items.3 In 1736, András Torkos, a Lutheran minister in Győr published his translation of the Bible in Wittenberg. György Szeniczei Bárány also published a translation in 1754 in the city of Lau.4 These two translations however were not widely spread. Sámuel Kámory, a reformed minister in Budapest published a New Testament translation in 1870.5 In 1917 at the 400th Anniversary of the Reformation, Dr. Endre Masznyik, a Lutheran minister, published his translation of the New Testament.6 Sándor Czeglédy, a Reformed minister, published a New Testament translation in Győr in 1924.7 Sándor Raffay, Bishop of the Hungarian Lutheran Church, published a New Testament translation in Budapest in 1929.8 In 1930, Sándor Czeglédy published a revised version of his former translation of the New Testament.9 Also in 1930, István Kecskeméthy published another New Testament translation.10 Gergely Buday, New Testament professor of the Budapest Reformed Theological Seminary prepared a New Testament translation which was published in Budapest in 1967. Bishop László Ravasz also prepared a New Testament translation which was published by the Bethlen Press, Ligonier, Pennsylvania in 1971. The Reformed Church of Hungary formed a committee to prepare a revised version of the Károlyi Bible t anslation and edited the New Testament in 1955. Following the revision of the Old Testament they felt that their new revised New Testament should be revised again. Thus, a new Revised Hungarian Bible is in the making now. This New Bible, just as the original Vizsoly Bible is completely a Hungarian enterprise with the translation completed by Hungarians, printed and edited by the Reformed Church in Hungary and in the diaspora. At the present a new Roman Catholic Hungarian Bible Translation is under preparation. NOTES iErdős, Károly, Az újszövetség magyar fordításai a reformáció óta, Újszövetségi füzetek, No. 1. p. 3. 2Károlyi Emlékkönyv, Musnai László, A vizsolyi biblia és Komáromi Csipkés György bibliája, pp. 150-152. »Ibid. p. 154. 4Erdős, p. 3. 5Ibid. p. 4. 6Ibid. p. 5. 7Ibid. p. 5. 8Ibid. p. 6. 9Ibid. p. 6. 10Ibid. p. 7. 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