Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-08
ST. JAMES VS.. DOUAY.
THE TWO EDITIONS OF THE BIRLE
CONTR4STED.
Rev. w. p. Ten Brock Takes n New De-
parture in the Controversial Iine-Ab-
stract of His Discourse Last Evening.


parture in the Controversial Line-Ab-
stract of His Discourse Last Evening.
Owing perhaps to two causes the unpro-
pitious state of the weather and Bishop I
Irelands sermon at the cathedral, Christ
church last evening was not over-crowded,
bat the very respectfully large congregation
was more than usually attentive to the dis |
course which the rector himself pronounced
dry. It was evident, however, that his hearers
characterized differently the mass Of quota
tons, references and close reasoning, which |
he crowded into an hours discourse.
The Rev. w. p. Ten Brock selected for
his text the words-"For we are not as many
which corrupt the word of God; but as of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God
speak we in Christi II Corinthians, .
chapter, II verse.
He introduced his subject by saying that
it had been said of the Episcopal church
that it had no right to exist, and had no au
thority. Holding up two books, he said that
he had two Bibles, the one that which is
used by the Anglican church, and by Pro-
testants wherever the English language is
spoken, the other the accepted English YER
sion of the church of Rome. He did not
propose to go to Italy or Spain to find what
they had there; it was enough for
his purpose to take their acknowledged
authentic Bible. The Roman church
unfortunately was not protean but it was
chameleon, and in this the Douay version of
the scriptures, we shall see her in her true
light Referring to the Protestant bible, he
read from the title page, showing that it
was translation from the original Hebrew
and Greek, diligently compared with former
TRANSACTIONS. There were at first 81 men
| appointed to do the work, but this number
was reduced to Al, who were divided into
companies, to each company was allotted
their work, which took three years to exc
cute. The work, when complete, was re-
ferred to committee of II to revise. He
detailed infinitely the systematic method
employed to insure correctness. With this
he contrasted the Douay, which, as the pref
ace said, was translated from the Latin vul-
gate and compared with the Hebrew and Greek
and one man revised it. He went infinitely
into the history of the Clementine text, the
mysteriously destroyed one of Jerolm. He
quoted from the decree of the council of Trent,
and said it was left to forty eight bishops to
determine what should be the word of God;
and by that decree man was pronunced
anathema who did not believe what did not
then exist. Forty-four years after the de-
cree an edition was produced. He alluded
to the decree of Sixtus ", and to the edition
so full of errors, which the next Pontiff felt
constrained to recall. OF this edition there
are but two copies left-one in England. He
dwelt at considerable length upon this fact
as an instance of infallibility. There are
he said, 1900 differences between the text OF
Sextus V. bible and that of Clement VIII.
The occasion of the Romish version, he
said, was because SO many read the Protest
ant version the Romish church felt that
something must be done, and three doctors
at Douay made the translation Q75O) land SO
full of blunders was it, and 80 laughable
that it was necessary to correct it, and thus
it was made more like the Protestant. The
Catholic Bible is merely translation of 8
translation. He next read the list of books
in the Catholic Bible, and said there are
books pretended to be Hebrew, which were
never written in the Hebrew language, and
never acknowledged by any Jewish syna-
gogue. Jerolm himself, says these books
should not establish any doctrine. He com.
pared this with the decree of the Vatican
council of 1870.
After reading the prefaces to several OF
the books in the Douay version, he referred al
, considerable length to the belief in tradi
tons characterizing them as floating myths
He quoted from Thessalonians, CHI. IL ".
3 Oh. 6v.: Corinthians, II ch. 2 ", ani
several other passages, showing the incon
! sistency of translations. He next referred tc
the marginal notes and words in italics il
icl, oh no -
the translators. In place of these the Doua,
t bible has prefaces to the books and notes
), He read notes to - Oh. Matthew, % v. 36 v.
Matthew, Is CHI. 10 "; Matthew &c, Oh. 26 v.
l Luke, 4S; John Oh. 81 "; Rom. IL Oh
8 BOWL Corinthians, 8 ch. 81 v. and nu
: merous others, to show that it is easy will
: notes to create dogmas and in this way ar,
I; formed the dogmas of indulgences, trans
q substantiation, alteration of the Virgin, &c
: Referring to tho charge of lnaccuracy Q
translation in the Protestant bible, he com
g pared passages 10 Matthew IL "; Coz
+ Z oh. 8 "; 5 Gal. II "; Cor. 8 Oh. s "; an
showed that the difference between the tw
versions was not material in the las
quoted both Catholic and Protestant bibees,a
t inaccurate. But he said the corruptions i
n the Catholic bible are not only more nume1
Gus, but more grave. He quoted Matthe
$ 26 CHI. II ", % Oh. "; Luke % Oh. 81
!. Matthew 6 oh. II ". "supersubstanti,
= bread" Peter 10 "; Ephesians 3 Oh. 8
). W, sacrament for mystery; in twenty-si
:. other passages the same word is translate
t. mystery. Then why sacrament here, if nc
. merely to build up dogma. Heb. 13 CT
II ", no authority for the word "prelate
It Heb. IL Oh. 81 ", the word upon lei
ri out, making the passage to res
10 s'Jacob adored the top of his rod.'' He con
is pared these passages with the origins
Greek.
m Speaking of penance he said the dogn
- was built up by false Interpretation in
~ Matthew v. II '. of the same chap.
forty three places the word occurs, it
4 identical with the word in Acts 10 ", al
l- seven other places translated ''repent.'
r this limited space it is impossible to
as more than allude to the points which Il
q preacher brought prominently forward
show that the Protestant bible is more q
ne thentic than the Douay. The points wer
e. LIST, more care was given in the TRANSLATE
= I'd, that the translation was made dire
il from the original and not from translatio
and thirdly, that no attempt was made
he the Protestants to distort or misinterpr
r. for purpose; that what few errors the
D. were if any, were not erro
of intent. He concluded
3. discourse by saying when man is willi1
8; %o ookn0xu1o1Ua ic%a 10 ho ia iu1oo1 1a1