The article is aimed at developing the notions of reverbalization and deverbalization in their application to historical texts, which have not yet been analyzed with their help. The analysis is held on the basis of the translation of the Gothic Bible that has always been of great interest for specialists in the Gothic language mainly from the viewpoint of the translational technique of Wulfila to whom the very translation from Greek is ascribed and besides the invention of the Gothic alphabet. All the papers, tackling the problem failed to reveal the most important features of the Gothic text, i. e. changes in its contents evoked by the particular word-for-word translational technique of Wulfila and paid no attention to the fragments of his translation that show the modes of expressing the text information according to the ways inherent in the lingual specificity of Gothic. These facts seem to be successfully established with the help of the notions of reverbalization and deverbalization which may be also very promising as the foundation for improving methods of translation from the point of view of their evolution in time. This fact can testify the actuality of the article though based on the historical material but effective for contemporary trends in translational technique.