Original: Vetus Latina is a collective name given to the Biblical texts in Latin that were translated before St Jerome 's Vulgate Bible ( 382-405 AD ) became the standard Bible for Latin-speaking Western Christians . The phrase Vetus Latina is Latin for Old Latin , and the Vetus Latina is sometimes known as the Old Latin Bible .
Simplified: Vetus Latina is the name given to a collection of Biblical texts that were translated into Latin before the Vulgate became the standard version used in the Latin-speaking world .