St Jerome (d. 420) translated the original Hebrew and Greek texts into the Latin Vulgate Bible. Beloved of Bill Mahedy because it was claimed that he (Jerome!) had “an irascible disposition and was seldom pleasant but at least he was never dull.”

If I do this on my own, I have a reward, 

but if not of my own will, then I am entrusted with a commission. I Corinthians 9: 17