Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (29 March 1613 – 4 January 1684), a priest of Port-Royal, was a theologian and French humanist. He is best known for his translation of the Bible the most widespread French Bible in the 18th century, also known as the Bible de Port-Royal.
De Sacy's is better known than previous translations and has been much reproduced. It was really the first translation of the bible accessible to the non-Latin speaking general public.
Characteristics of de Sacy's Bible
Some theologians criticized the translation of de Sacy as sometimes deviating from the letter of the original for no apparent reason. Others saw it as sober and elegant. As for explanations, they are at the time too encouraging the theories of Cornelius Jansen.
The Bible de Port-Royal was developed as a result of work carried out by logic Abbey de Port-Royal to Paris (see Port-Royal Logic). This logic was wanted to build exclusively on mathematics it was thought it could transpose the models in other fields of knowledge and the exercise of reason, therefore also in the field of training syntactic et grammatical of all statements of language, offering an ideal of rational language who wanted to reconcile the spirit of finesse and the spirit of geometry : the discourse par excellence.
Bible de Saci (1759) as Zefania XML here
Bible de Saci (1759) as OSIS XML here
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You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:
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