The Irish standard., 1890-07-26
WHY CATHOLICS OBJECT. J.
Differences Existing between the Douay
and King James Bibles Care I I
fully Considered.
THE LATTER FULL OF MISTAKES.
Misrepresentatlons and PerYersions Of the
True Text . Feature Of the King # Il
James Version. .s

This question is pnt@to us In good
faith, says the Catholic Record. Of
Indianapolis, BY tho Madison Courier,
and deserves q much longer reply than
we have space for. The differences are
many. though both are supposed to be
translations Of the same book, IL the
question be put why do Catholics object
to King James Bible. it may be an.
swered. ss4 WA.
sIst. That it rejects as apocrvphal
certain portions of Wilat the maj jority
OF Christians consider 8 part Of Gods
revealed word. ..# ss15 !.
End, That it is a base and corrupted
rendering OF the sacred text. Ward. an
acknowledged En- zlish scholar, points
out upwards of 8. 600 errors In King
James Blble.'' See Ward 3 ,Errata of
the Englsh Bible" ri
The Canon OF Holy Sculpture is a
cause Of the widest divergence between
the Protestant and Catholic translations
OF the Bible. Which Of the BOOKS Of the
Bible are inspired and which are not {
The Protestant Bible. rejects the apo
cryphal the. books 4ot Tobias, Judith.
Esther Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus, Ba-
ruch ana the two books of Macbabees
The rej jectlon OF these parts 1T Holy
Scripture is based upon the so-called
Hebrew Canon enacted by the rabbin-
ical school of Antioch J, which enume-
rated the. inspired 4 books 5of the Old.
Testament, leaving out the above mem
toned books. The same canon was in
llse Nv some of the earlier fathers Of
the church, and they, therefore. denied
the authent ticity and inspiration of these
books. The Hebrew Canon was notoriT
ouslY biased. leaving out Eccl
because it seemed TO favor The Trinity,
and is Of verY doubtful authenticity
The Catholic Canon, or list Of books Of
the Bible. follows the Septuagint, or
Greek translation of the 20 translatorsi
OF Alexandria. The canon is founded
upon the decisions Of Councils, as early
as 3sS, and was approved blythe Council
Of Florence for the union Of the Greek
and Latin churches in the 18th century.
For the conveni ience Of scholars those,
books which have ALWAYS been accepted
are called ''proto- -canonical," those
which have ever been questioned are.
called 's'deutero cano onical. 4, 4, but all the
books are held BY the Catholic Church
as Of equal value. }, The Catholic Canon
is the one accepted by Latins. Greeks,
Armenians and other Orientals, Pro-.
testants forming the solitary exception,
among all Christians. When the early
reformers sought to be recognized by
the Greek Schismatlc church. one Of the
grounds for refusing their overtures
was the rejection Of. the deutero canon
cal books. AZ .,s 4@ 3'
The basis Of the King James and the
Doaay translatiOns are also different
The King James version is a revision Of
the Geneva translation Of 1860 and the
Bishops Bible Of 1868, and ls q com
promise between Presbyterianism and
and. Episcopacy. Both Of these trans
lations we're founded upon that Of
which was made from sup
posed original Greek and Hebrew texts.
That these were incorrect is shown BY
the more recent discovery and publlca-
ton Of earlier manuscript copies of the
notably she Godex Alex
andrinus and the Codex Vaticanus.
The King James version superseded
alltother versions because the printing
and. circulation of any other was pro.
hiblted by law, and though losthed bY
mont Cont formists and Puritans. even il
Cromweli's = time. the King James YER
sion was gradually accepted as the
BY all English Protestants.
There can be no questio that the En-
glish Protestant Bible sis q specimen OF
purest English 1ndefile Ial
The basissof tho Douay version was.
the Latin Vulgate, which issthe author-
ized version of tho Scrip ptures ii the,
Catholic Church, though many of the
scrlptural PORTIONS d of ths Catholic
liturgy are from the Itala or earlier
Latin version. .Ehe 4 attn Y Valgate was.
the work of ST. rolms. partly la reyii.