New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-19
ACCURACY OF MODERN EDITIONS.

Several errors exist in the modern Catholic YER
sions. traceable to blunders of Jerome. On the
other hand the 1901 Protestant version is inferior
TO the Catholic in few places, though in the
judgment of the writer. these are very few.
The history Of the versions will explain many OF
these variations Jerome went over some of his
work again and again, especially the Psalms, but
his final revision rejected. Not only was the
it underwent two further revsions, after ter p6bc
criticism before It took shape in 1888 Similarly,
revsers or 13Si-s5 went over their repeatedly
e edEa after Public criticism %as reconsdered be-
but not TO this extent. sxtus was aware Of the
the Vuieate; Furthermore. he had paved et' the he
they f3F his ve ToF by and his fine he edition On
compilation Of quotations by the early Fathers
ions as the early hs made
and not distorted by subsequent scribes; while he
Reproduce the earliest form of Jerome,s version in
the Hebrew and Greek Clement avoided this ele-
ment Of error
The Revisers OF 1881, after the principles of
using early manuscripts and versions and quota
s2nS bad ba eo % e d fnq of 3 Il
land DID the same. but attached greatest weight
Of 1901 all important variations Of the early yer
son 1 are recorded 9I2tI 6, in tn the margin Tgg,s.
which s Tsyer upon N f t the early
the reading now followed in the text comedies
lators 10 a few cases the Protestant version has
silently adopted the reading always preferred at
edges that the reading OF the Catholic version is
worth considering; in still other passages scholars
do not agree as to what is certainly the true
original. and there are even remarkable readings
upnoticed by either version But there arc several
passages IN which Protestant scholars are agreed
represent the original Greek, and that therefore.
the Douay Bible must be wrong while the 1901
set forth for special reasons
Matt xvii 30 not only records that the soldiers
but eome S That It might be- fu tg wb Gs
was spoken by the prophet, saying, They divided
they 01 Fhe 81q g
tainly made by John, at ls, "a but it is beyond
doq Rs th ony R9f e4a By dnSer that
a case where Pope Sixtus cut out the intrusive
words, and Pope Clement restored them in the
81 John " 6-S as the passage stands in the Douay
Bible. differs from the Protestant version not
only in the division of verses, but in the inserting
OF the words: In heaven, the Father the Word
and the Holy Ghost And these three one.
No words corresponding exactly to these are to
be found in single one Of the two hundred and
nifty Greek manuscripts that contain the adioin-
only in four Greek manuscripts. all written after
the year 1900. with suspicious of forgery in each
til 1215, even when discussing the doctrine of the
Trinity. and adducing texts TO prove It. They were
Armenia; Of Persia. Arabia and Syria; Of Abys-
sinia and Egypt: for the numerous versions Of
found in any Latin manuscript earlier than the
seventh century, nor in any used by Alcuin in
500 while the great mass Of Latin manuscript
and often as inserted by later writer
The first express quotation is by the Bishop
for a king leaning to Unitarianism After that gR
time the words can be traced spreading from that
ing INTO the form and position they assume In
the Catholic version. Earlier illusions. even in
thai neignoorhood. only imply knowledge OF verse