If the city is innundated with the blood of citizens?
You are guilty of it all." [Sidenote: Annotations on the New Testament] Valla's critical genius next attacked the schoolman's idol Aristotle and the humanist's demigod Cicero.

More important were his _Annotations on the New Testament_, first published by Erasmus in 1505.
The Vulgate was at that time regarded, as it was at Trent defined to be, the authentic or official form of the Scriptures.

Taking in hand three Latin and three Greek manuscripts, Valla had no difficulty in showing that they differed from one another and that in some cases the Latin had no authority whatever in the Greek.

He pointed out a number of mistranslations, some of them in passages vitally affecting the faith.

In short he left no support standing for any theory of verbal inspiration.