Chapter 5.—Scripture Translated
into Various Languages.
6. And hence it happened that
even Holy Scripture, which brings a remedy for the terrible
diseases of the human will, being at first set forth in one
language, by means of which it could at the fit season be
disseminated through the whole world, was interpreted into various
tongues, and spread far and wide, and thus became known to the
nations for their salvation. And in reading it, men seek nothing
more than to find out the thought and will of those by whom it was
written, and
through these to find out the
will of God, in accordance with which they believe these men to
have spoken.