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place Is probable that Jeremias preserved the sacred
volume again We road that Daniel read the Scriptures,
nns b a b b"yas read s the prophecy Of sss which could
from Josephus in the eleventh book of his antiQue
What Esdras did to revise the books and to
became familiar during their capvityhe books which
written during and after the captivity were written
wisdom and the second book Of MaeeaSte. b. w1ch sp
pear to have been written In Greek The Samarsns
always preserved the Penteteauch in the old Hebrew
character In the fifth century OF the christian era the
vowel points added to this character by Jewish
Rabbns residing at iibsIius Up TO this time the Pen.
nothing Of those vowel points. The New Testament
principally written in Greek. The Gospel Of ST. Matthew
Chadac and the Gospel of St Mark supposed have
been written in Latin. Besides the sacred books, the
were 6ve-that Of onkalos-that OF JonatEan-that Of
Rabbi Joseph the Jerusalem argum and the Baby onish
targums. The targums though abounding in errors,
were much esteemed by the Jews We now come to the
tIansations of the holy scriptures In this lecture,
shall notice only the principal The most famous
translation is briefly this Polemy, King Of Egypt as
we informed, by Josephus, requested by his IL
brarian, Demetrus Phalareus, to send messengers
Eleazer High Priest Of the Jews for copy Of their
laws together with seventy interpreters wslsklled in
the Hebrew and Greek languages. His request was
granted and the seventy Interpreters sent to the
Isle ofPharos where they executed their work. Phio
and Josephus both Jews speak rapturously trans
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first idea of the Messas literally prepared the way
the gospel The Gentles the prophecies regarding
the Messiah fulfilled in Jesus Christ They the OBJ
duracy Of the Jews distinctly foreto They could not
the Apostles as mposters seeing that they had
ably accuse the Jews Of forging prophecies directly mill
tating against themselves The great authority Of this
transationis from the following circumstances
the other ancient translaons taken from
this. secondly-It nwas made when the Hebrew and
Greek languages were vernacular. Thirdly-the Apos
ties in the New Testament quote from it, and this they
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The learned divided to what number of books the
seventy interpreters did translate but we think the
question decided by the authority Of osephus who tells
us in his preface to his Antiquities that they translated
only The others have been
other hands The best editions Septuagnt those
Of Alcala under the direction of the famous Cardinal
Ximnes, in the 1875 and that of Rome called the
extensive with the Roman empire the Latin church had
| a translation of the Holy Scriptures in the vul.
but the taIic version commonly called the vugate was
generally used. Az this version found to contain
many st. Jerome the request Of Pope Damascus
undertook to correct them In order to make his labor
complete he translated all the books found in the
Hebrew canon, together with Esther and Judith This
opposed by some st. Jerome, however proved the
rectness Of his translation from the testimony of the jew
lead Of the old iaic He also corrected the New Tesa
ment according to the most approved manuscripts Th
labor Of st. Jerome was better received than the first
for as the Greek language then pretty generally
known, his corrections could be easily verified
process Of time some the fault of copyss
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it corrected in the reign Of Charlemagne since
then has also been corrected but without injury
o
that this version could be safely relied in all matters
appertainine to faith and morals By this the
Council has by no means placed the authority of the
transation above the original Since the Council
edition Of this translation has been given by Pope sxtus
Quintus and after him another edition was given by
Clement WILL All Latin Bibles printed
from this Cementne edition. You have heard of the Po
lyglo Poyglotts collections of the various
four in number-three are the abors Of Catholics the
fourth from Protestant hand The first called the
Complutentan printed in the year 1915 under the
picss Of the famous Cardinal Xmines The second is the
Anwerpsn printed in the 1872 under the auspices
LIE Jay, in the year l645 The fourth the London, b,
Wane in the year 1888 ve you tins history that you
preserving the Holy Scriptures in their purity beg
you to recollect that the Greek and Latin languages
civilized world Many of you have often heard
that the world indebted to reformation for the Holy
Scriptures in the vugas tongue You have also heard
to conceal the Scriptures from the people, in the
dead Languages, lest her errors and abomnations
should be detected by the ght OF scIptura evidence
Judge Of the truth Of this assertion from the history
which have given to you AS to the assertion hatwe
indebted to the reformation for the Scriptures in the
dern dialects this alsed by the history OF the Of
printing which tells that the first application which
was made Of this divine the
vice of Almighty God by printing the Bible in the vul
tongue half century before the Reformation
Listen to the following facts =" The earliest printed
language by Martin Luther The New Testament OF
that version printed in ls22the Old in $780, had
at Mentz in l462-secondly, by Bremiers, printed al
Augsburg in l467-and thirdly by the four versions
mentioned by Beusobre Hist de la Reformation, liz Nv
The earliest printed French Protestant version is that
olivctan assisted BY Calvin It contains the whole Bi
ee and was finished in 1888, the 1888 which Is the
date mentioned in the title being the year IN which
It was first committed to the press. This version had
been preceded first by the French version OF the New
Testament by Julian, an Augustnian monk printed IN
IH7.secondly BY the French version Of the whole Bi
ble Gnyard des Mouins printed in thirdly BY
printed in l522 and the Old in 1928. The last OF
these editions was particularly used by Ovetan. The
eorliest printed Italian Protestant version appeared in
1861 1t had been preceded first by Malemis printed I'D
l47land secondly, by Bruccol's in 1882, which last
version the protestant translator generally followed
from Luhers and appeared in 1917. 1t had been
ded by version OF the four gospels printed in l4I2
IN no ,a7sa Gns s Delft n is7st nHie Gend in i
| and both at Antwerp and Louvain, in i5ls
scriptures in the vsrnacuar tongue later than the ma
tons of the continent Of Europe but this must not be
attributed to the apathy hostility of the Catholic
to the vlanous policy Of the British government and
to the intolerance Of the English church The New
Testament was translated at Rheims in the year 1874
was republished at Antwerp in the year 1900 and in
1909 the whole Bible translated and published al
Dousy This translation was reprinted in England IN
Challoncr This translation s now in the hands OF the
Catholics Of this country and has been lately printed in
Dunigans edition, and beautiful edition it is Though
the English Catholics had not the Holy Scriptures in
their vernacuar dialect yet must be said that those
who knew how to read, had them in language which
they perfectly understood Here you will permit me to
read an extract from Macauley In his essay on Mona
VIIlth or Edward the vIth person who did not read
Greek and Latin could read nothing All the books
then extant, in the vernacuar dialects OF Europe,
would hardly have filled a single shelf per
son who was ignorant of the Latin language, was
shut out from ali acquaintance even with the pamph
Of q w me employ
for it fixed language, while the living Languages
were in a state of Auctuatonr We are SAFE then IN as
serting that all who able to read had the bole IN
language equally familiar to them as their monei
tongue and this for century and more after the reior.
nation II must be admitted, then, that the Catholics
have the Bible in the vulgar tongue. But they per-
mitted read it The Catholic Churchis charged with
prob biting the Scriptures to the aity defy the most
nveteras enemy of the Catholic Church to point
single decree Of the church prohibiting the people at
large from reading the Scriptures in their own language
This charge has grown out Of fourth rule
the index The Council Of Trent formal prQhhitinR