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Douay/Rheims First Catoholic translated from Aramaic, and Greek. In the Villages in France Douay, FranceRevised and Rheims, France neighboring towns..The old Testament; First published by the English College at Douay, A.D. 1609
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The New Testament
First published by the English College at Rheims, A.D. 1582
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the latin Vulgate, by Bishop Richard Challoner, A. D. 1749-1752
Published with the Approbation of
HIS EMINENCE JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS
Archbishop of Baltimore.
Diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in Divers Languages.
this Bible is Translated by St. Jerome (342-420) St, Jerome, who was one of the four great Western Fathers of the Church, was a man raised up by God to translate the Holy Bible into the common latin tongue of his day. He knew Latin and Greek perfectly; he also knew Herbrew and Aramaic nearly as well. He was 1500 years closer to the original languages than any scholar today, which would make him a much better judge of the exact meaning of any Greek or Hebrew word in the Scriptures. Besides being a towering linguistic genius, he was also a great saint, and he had access to ancient hebrew and Greek manuscripts of the 2nd and 3rd centuries which have since perished and are no longer available to scholars today. St. Jerome's transltion, moreover, was a careful rendering of the origianl texts into Latin.