Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-10-09
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PoPEaY AGAINsT THE Bible AND LTgEB
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DEAR HERALD:
In the usual style of Papal writer,
"A Catholic starts in his last 10y begging
The questions at Issue. aud then proceeds q
2ei Off a long honlily. l shall not waste
space By following him through bis hatt-
lent verbosit,.
He charged protestanis with having
CORRUPTED the original tert' of the HOLY
Scriptures with design" &c-now, who
Of your readers does not know thai lhs
original text is in Hebrew for the Old
Testament, ani ttrtek f,r-tn. nav! .saAnl
wien ! call on HIN TO show wherein the
EorlgiRat tect, for this WAS the charge he
made, was corrupted by Pfotestauls, he
furnishes us with a long list of passage,
from our English translation and merck
compares them with the Douay version
and ranges them under SO many different
heads Of popish dogmas, and calls them
errors of translation; assuming that the
| Douay is correct, AMI ergo, that as the
EngIisii differs from il that must he wrong
Wonderful logic. Why the Douay is on
the original Greek, but from the Latin, ..
| vulsate, so called. This question is nor /,
be settled by such "a comparison, Blu, Nv !;
scholarly referance to the ''oyfgiaal tert'
which he says We have corrupted
| " here ~?
All those paragraphs which he has mum
bered from to 6, seem 10 be Introduce
merely to pordde SO inany PopiSh dog
n,as before your readers, wild proof text
from their bnuglmg, secoad haua hanslet
hon, The Douay a review aud carree
non Of all these passages would fill ,ao .,
/ three of Your issnes.
Your editorial gives me to un,ierstan,
that we are both clergy men. If therefore
"A Catholic wishes 10 discuss those Jog
mas he has enumerated, | give him thi>
! far challenge. | ctfer him my Church, il
which TO affirm bis dpgmas. seria I'm, and
hc shall glve me his, il which TO rpl,.-
/ hen will affirm the Christian doctrine
as held ty Protest -aats III his Church, ans
be shall reply IN mine. Umpires to be
agreed on. Ia
1t is not individual TRANSACTIONS, e;;tlol
If Zwinele, or Luther, or Berza. or Oecal
ampiditls. hat are in question. but the
"0rf9iAui tc.ct' and tli., authorized English
version. 50 that all hi woriness aboui
other TRANSACTIONS, OF Of ,ielache portions.
is only 50 much twa,ldie. He is conscious
OF tiiis, and incautousig saws because
10 f. / h csc . nj tie d error :.
King James commanded a review ami
reJormottoR,' Correction and this yer
sion which is the most perfect the sun
ever shone on. he attempts no criticism of,
but merely compares i. With his own de
.ectlye DoHay, and not with lie oiigina.
text
Bat lest he should say | am alroitl,
passing by all his passage, will take up
one Of his paragraphs, No. 5, which h
heads ',the single lives Of the priests" He,
quotes froa the Douay, Cor 90. Have
not we power to lead about "a roman
DC Aud then he SAYS ..rhey (protes
lani>) Juisely corrupt (tran>islv?) his text
Of Paul, and try TO make bin say, that he
and the rest OF the Apostles, lei their
wives about with then because instea OF
woman they transla e ''wifi-, and in
Phil. 4-3, YEA beseech thee my sincere
companion (Dooay) they, Q'rotes'aats, J
say yoke fellow "n purpose 10 make 1t
sound in Engiish man aud wife.
Certainty If the text will bear 10 b..
tral,sla ed wife and ''yokr fellow" in
stead II Woasan aud compilation it is muci,
more to the credit of The Apostles, .ae.i
would be far more cre,itable 10 the piiast,
# the present ,lay, and avci ele;, Of
scandal ii they had wsoes AMI yoke feilows.
as hon,ekeep@rs. instead of WoBaen ani
sincere coHapaHioas 1t does not tolioW
uerause Paul had no wife. at one time.
| hat he had not AT a subs queut period
T He saws To Timothy '.fie hat desires thu
IoiTice OF i Bishop desires a goodwofk," ans
IINFttiVf OH lie Says II iSii'pbttn {,
bishop TO lie the husband ofone wifi, an
the blessed st. Peter; 'sRequiescat an
pace" We know had wife, for Mat. Sill
NE read ''And when Jesus was come INTO
Peters house, lie saw his teiifies mother ~
mo. and sick of fever ouay. And
Just now 507 Austrian Priests, hea fed by
Che Cardinal Prince, have issued memo
rial III which they demand a REFoRMA-
rIos. aud among other things they de-
lnan,i the abolition Of ceii5acy" If this
is not done they say "All our influence
Will entirely disappear, the Catholic rtllg-
Ion will be dis ,elsed, and the hierarchy be
fatally overihrown." That eelii,acs Wa
not enforced gu the clergy until 325 is i
historical fact.
lf..A Catholic will examine the Greek
idiom he will find that The word ''gune
used in connection with other certain words
always means eithera married ,comaa, o
a betrothed seifs, and is SO translated, boti
III the English and Douay Bibles except in
the passage quoted BY "A Catholic.
/ Cor 90, where he claims that .gune'
should be translated woman, although tile