Westminster Shorter Catechism - Easy Explanation, by John Wallis

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" John Wallis, the author of the Explanation, was one of the scribes of the Westminster Assembly and is more broadly known as a pioneer in mathematics. The Explanation met with great approval by the Assembly and was printed in 1648. Wallis’s Explanation contains the original text of the Shorter Catechism, including questions, answers, and Bible proof texts. For each Catechism question and answer, Wallis inserted a series of additional questions, each of which has a “Yes” or “No” answer. In the spirit of Wallis’s original work, this present translation of Wallis’s Explanation uses the main questions and answers from the editor’s translation of the Westminster Shorter Catechism (links below) and simply inserts translations of Wallis’s new questions and answers into the modern Catechism text between the question and the long answer of the Catechism. As such, all footnotes, introductory material, appendices, and so on that appear in the translation are preserved as well. Finally, in contrast to the formal prose of the Catechism, Wallis’s questions are in an informal conversational style, and often in incomplete sentences; the editor has endeavored to preserve this aspect as well."

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Was it originally in Latin; it talks about translation?

The original was in English. The editor also refers to his "translation" of the Shorter Catechism. He is probably using "translation" to mean he has altered the words to reflect what he regards as contemporary English. Further down the page he has a link to "List of Works Known to be in Contemporary English."
 
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