Within thirty years of the time when Melito is writing Tertullian uses the phrase Novum Testamentum precisely in our modern sense, intimating that it had then become the current designation [Endnote 245:3].
As to the defects of the present edition, see Tischendorf, Prolegomena to Vetus Testamentum Graece juxta LXX Interpretes, p.
The testamentum ruptum is so named because it is made void through the birth of a posthumous child who is neither disinherited nor made an heir by name.
And in the Psalms is read: Adversum te testamentum disposuerunt; and many others of the sort.
A testamentum holographum is one wholly written and signed in the hand-writing of the maker.
The text of the Vulgate may be studied in Wordsworth and White, Novum Testamentum Latine; Corssen, Epistula ad Galatas.
The editio princeps of the Bohairic version appeared a few years later with the title "Novum Testamentum Aegyptium vulgo Copticum ex MSS.
Irenæus again remained entangled in his apparatus, and much as he speaks of the novum testamentum libertatis, his great work little conveys the impression that its author has really attained intellectual freedom.
Hereupon began the last stage, in which men, being now sufficiently trained, were to receive the "testamentum libertatis" and be adopted as Sons of God.
Learned readers can scarcely require to be told of the same learned scholar's Novum Testamentum Textus Stephanici, A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "testamentum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
