♛Douay-Rheims Holy Bible | Sophonias(Zephaniah)✠
Channel: Douay-Rheims Authorized Catholic Bible
Date: 2016-10-24

Welcome To The Bible Lounge.

This side of YouTube is on the Holy Bible. Feel free to Relax and Hear the word of God. The Douay Rheims is a very popular translation of the Vulgate edition of the Bible into English.

Those familiar with the Douay-Rheims bible will know that it is one of the most beautiful and accurate bible translations available today – a word for word translation of the Clementine vulgate which St Jeromes translation. 

Douay-Rheims version is an authorized catholic bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate. Diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and other editions in divers languages. 

The old testament first published by the English college at Douay, a.D. 1609 and the new testament first published by the English college at Rheims, a.D. 1582, with annotations, references, and an historical and chronological index. The whole revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by bishop Richard Challoner, a.D. 1749-1752 his eminence James cardinal gibbons archbishop of Baltimore. We maintain that it is still the best and safest version of the bible in English. Translated with profound respect for every word.  The Latin version of the Bible in common use in the Catholic Church and declared authentic or authoritative by the Council of Trent." (Catholic Dictionary) The Vulgate is the only formally 'canonized' translation of the Bible. The Vulgate was prepared by St. Jerome at the command of Pope Damasus in the fourth century. As Pope Benedict XV has stated, "[St. Jerome's] unceasing reading of the Bible and his painstaking study of each book - nay, of every phrase and word - gave him a knowledge of the text such as no other ecclesiastical writer of old possessed. It is due to this familiarity with the text and to his own acute judgment that the Vulgate version Jerome made is, in the judgment of all capable men, preferable to any other ancient version, since it appears to give us the sense of the original more accurately and with greater elegance than they. The said Vulgate, 'approved by so many centuries of use in the Church' was pronounced by the Council of Trent 'authentic,' and the same Council insisted that it was to be used in teaching and in the liturgy" (Pope Benedict XV, "Spiritus Paraclitus", 1920 A.D.) As the Council of Trent stated, "Moreover, the same sacred and holy Synod taking into consideration that no small benefit can accrue to the Church of God, if it be made known which one of all the Latin editions of the sacred books which are in circulation is to be considered authentic, has decided and declares that the said old Vulgate edition, which has been approved by the Church itself through long usage for so many centuries in public lectures, disputations, sermons, and expositions, be considered authentic, and that no one under any pretext whatsoever dare or presume to reject it." (Council of Trent, 1546 A.D.)

The Bible is not easy to understand, translate or interpret. Not only does the Bible contain mysteries above the human intellect, but it also uses various literary forms and must be interpreted according to the proper sense. St. Peter himself, in Holy Scripture, speaks of the difficulty of Scripture: "And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you, speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures. To really be an expert on the Bible, you would have to be an expert on ancient languages, ancient practices, archeology, history, etc. You would have to look at who writings were directed at, what the circumstances were, what local customs were, and at all the subtleties involved. You would also have to bear in mind that words used in Scripture may mean different things - and that they may have meant altogether different things in their original languages. And further, you would have to deal with the fact that Scripture may be obscure, subtle, and hard to grasp.

St Jerome: "A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church"
St Jerome: "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ"
St Jerome: "When we pray, we speak to God; but when we read(the Word of God), God speaks to us"

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