Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsJohn 8

Amen, amen.

^[1] What is it (saith S. Augustine upon this place) when our Lord saith, Amen, amen? He doth much commend and urge the thing that he so uttereth, doubling it. It is a certain oath of his, if a man may so say. for Amen in Hebrew signifieth verum, a truth. Yet is it not translated, Whereas it might have been said, verum, verum dico vobis, but neither the ^[2] Greek interpreter durst do it, nor the Latin, the Hebrew word hath remained still, that so it might be the more esteemed. Tract. 41 in Joan. By which words and the like ^[3] recorded in other places of this new Testament, the Reader may see great reason, why we also say, Amen, amen, and durst not translate it and such like words into our English tongue.

• 1 Why Amen, amen, is not translated.
• 2 See the preface, & Annot. in Apoc. c. 19. 4.
• 3 * Ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν.