Expert: Maria - 3/21/2010

Question
will you please give me the english to latin translation for the phrase "hell follows with him"

Answer

Hello,

Here’s the Latin translation you asked me:

“Infernus sequitur eum“.

Note that this translation is an adaptation of  a quotation from The Revelation of St. John 6:8, as we read it in the Latin  Bible, i.e. in the Vulgate, translated by St. Jerome between 382 and 405 AD, and  known as the 'versio vulgata'  literally meaning 'common translation':

In the Revelation 6:8 St.John says:

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and HELL FOLLOWED WITH HIM. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth”
(Latin Vulgate:  “et ecce equus pallidus et qui sedebat desuper nomen illi Mors et INFERNUS SEQUEBATUR EUM et data est illi potestas super quattuor partes terrae interficere gladio fame et morte et bestiis terrae”)

Have a nice  day,
Maria
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Hell = INFERNUS (ecclesiastical Latin)
Follows = SEQUITUR ( 3rd.person singular, present of SEQUOR, I follow)
With him = EUM (direct object, accusative masculine singular of the pronoun IS)