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"Dokiman an pi ansyen Alman nan nenpòt kalite se yon tradiksyon nan Bib la fè l 'nan 381 pa yon mwàn yo te rele Ulfilas; li tradui l 'nan gotik, ki se ki sa German te tounen Lè sa a,. Ou tande moun di souvan ke Martin Luther te premye a nan essaye libere Bib la soti nan men Legliz la epi remèt li bay yon ekri nan Liv-grangou moun, men sa a evidamman istwa san sans. depi Ulfilas, ke te gen plis pase yon mil ane nan maniskri German-lang Bib, ak omwen ven-yon sèl enprime edisyon Alman (pa konte Kadinal jibon a) anvan Luther. " (Poukisa katolik fè sa?, Ballantine Liv, 1995, p. 24, n.)
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“The oldest German document of any kind is a translation of the Bible done in 381 by a monk named Ulfilas; he translated it into Gothic, which is what German was back then. You often hear that Martin Luther was the first to liberate the Bible from the Church’s grasp and give it to a Scripture-starved people, but that’s obviously nonsense. Since Ulfilas, there had been more than a thousand years of manuscript German-language Bibles, and at least twenty-one printed German editions (by Cardinal Gibbon’s count) before Luther.” (Why Do Catholics Do That?, Ballantine Books, 1995, p. 24, n.)