(June 27, 2014 at 5:47 am)Confused Ape Wrote:
The word, English, in this context is referring to an area of Britain which eventually became known as England because the article is about the history of this area. There weren't any English people living in it, though, when the 'Old Latin Bible' was written. Enlgish people didn't even exist then unless you count the pagan Angles and Saxons who didn't start moving to Britain until the 5th century.
It seems that you have a couple of Jews, a Roman, and a Greek as the Gospel writers with German sodbusters as the Bible writers.