Chinese Translation of the Four Gospels ―Inheritance between Tianzhu Jiangsheng Yanxing Jilüe, and Guxin Shengjing

摘要

Giulio Aleni （1582–1649） composed Tianzhu Jiangsheng Yanxing Jilüe （天主降生言行紀畧） in 1635. He translated a part of the four Gospels from the original Latin text into Chinese, and added notations. Around 1800, the Jesuit Louis Antoine de Poirot （1735–1813） translated the Old and New Testaments, and collected them in the text Guxin Shengjing （古新聖経）. He also used the Latin Vulgate Bible and translated it into vernacular Chinese.This paper compares the parts of Matthew Gospel in the Guxin Shengjing and its predecessors, Tianzhu Jiangsheng Yanxing Jilüe, and examines their commonalities and differences in terms of vocabulary and style.