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No. St. Constantine didn't become a Christian until he was on his deathbed. St. Jerome personally translated it into Latin. King James ordered it translated into English.
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St. Jerome was the man who translated the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin so more people could read and believe in the message of salvation found in it.
St. Jerome
No, Saint Thomas Aquinas did not translate the Bible. He was a philosopher and theologian known for his writings on natural theology and the relationship between faith and reason.
The Latin version of the Bible was translated by Jerome. It is called the Vulgate and was the official Catholic Bible up until very recently.
Jerome did not write anything in the Bible. He was a scholar, a historian, a prolific writer and a translator. He was probably most known for his part in translating the Bible from the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic languages into Latin.
Eusebius Hieronymus, also known as Jerome, was commissioned by Pope Damasus to begin translating the New Testament from Greek into Latin. After the death of Damasus, he began the translation of the Old Testament. Jerome spoke Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and understood Syraic, a language similar to Aramaic, so was an ideal choice for this project.
So that people could read and understand it. The same reason that centuries earlier St. Jerome translated it from Hebrew, Chaldeic and Greek into Latin.
In the western church the Four Fathers of the Church were: St. Gregory the Great, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and St. Jerome.
St. Jerome first translated the Bible and it was into Latin.
It is believed that St. Jerome made a similar statement, "ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." St. Jerome was a prominent early Christian theologian known for his translations of the Bible into Latin.