Ulfilas
Americannoun
noun
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Ulfilas, the bishop of the Goths at that time, invented the Gothic letters and, translating the Holy Scriptures into their own language, undertook to instruct these barbarians in the divine oracles.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
There was a Gothic translation of the Bible, which is supposed to have been made in the fourth century by Ulfilas.
From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Dobschutz, Ernst Von
Ulfilas, Bishop, notice of him and of his Gothic translation of the Bible, 181.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Bishop Ulfilas in his old Gothic translation of the Scriptures used the word "hansa" to designate the mob of soldiers and servants of the High Priest who came to take Christ prisoner in the Garden.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
This is partly owing to the fact that Ulfilas was an Arian bishop, and that the accounts which we possess of him come from two opposite sides, from Arian and Athanasian writers.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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