The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-02
ACCURACY OF THE
CATHOLIC BIBLE
THE PROTESTANT REVISED YER.
SION ADOPTS CATHOLIC TEXT
IN CORRECTING THE AUTHOR
lied VERSION OF HOLY
ScRIPTURE-THE MOST
IMPORTANT CHANGES.

Attractive and valuable as are
literary force and beauty in the render
ing of Scripture, fidelity of transla-
tion is of even greater value and i'm
portance,' says the New Zealand Tab
let. In this respect the Authorized
Version is notoriously defective; and
it's shortcomings have been frankly
admitted by the compilers of the Re
vised Version which was published
in 1881.
In the preface to the latter the COM
pliers say: There are, however, num-
erous passages in the Authorized
Version" in which, whether regard be
had to the recurrence Gas in the first
llree Gospels) of identical clauses
and sentences, to the repetition of the
same word in the same passage, or to
the characteristic use of particular
words by the same writer, the studied
variety adopted by the translators of
1911 has produced degree of incon-
sistency that cannot be reconciled
with the principle of faithfulness.
ut is an interesting tribute to the
accuracy of the Douai (Catholic) Bible
that the compilers of the Revised
Version in large proportion of cases
have reverted, in effect, to the render
ing adopted in the Catholic version.
I'VE give a few samples, taken,
without classification, just as they come
to hand. Thus the well-known tag to
the Lords Prayer contained in the
Authorized Version (St Matt, vi, 13)
For Thine is the kingdom and the
power, and the glory, forever. Amen
which is not found in the Catholic
Bible, has been omitted also from the
Revised Version
Again, Cor, XII, 27 (referring to
the Blessed Eucharist) reads thus in
the Authorized Version: Wherefore,
whosoever shall eat this bread and
drink this cup of the Lord unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and blood
of the Lord The and here is i'm
portant; for if it were correct trans
lation it might be taken as implying
that unless the Eucharist were re-
ceived under both kinds there would
be no Communion.
"Catholic scholars have always in
sisted that the and in this case was
an unmistakable mistranslation, and
in the Douai Bible the verse runs:
Therefore, whosoever shall eat this
bread or drink the chalice of the Lord
unworthily shall be guilty Of the body
and of the blood of the Lord And
again, the Revised Version has fallen
into line with the Catholic Bible and
translates the verse as follows:
Wherefore, whosoever shall eat the
bread or drink the cup of the Lord
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body
and the blood of the Lord
Again, the imperative Search the
Scriptures (St. John v, 39) of the
Authorized Version which has been
so often appealed to as showing that
the Bible was intended to be the sole
rule of faith, is now correctly-and in
harmony with footnote in the Douai
Bible-translated in the Revised Yer
sion: 'Ye search the Scriptures
thus depriving it of all application to
the question of a rule of faith.
"Once more: The words Of III limo
thy iii, 16, which the Authorized Yer
sion gives as All Scripture is given
by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correc-
tion,' ETC., has been corrected in the
Revised Version SO as to run: Every
Scripture inspired of God is also
profitable for teaching, for reproof,'
etc.-and the Protestant rendering is
once again brought into conformity
with the Douai reading. And SO we
might 60 on. 1t is curious, and per-
haps significant, that in spite of it's
superior accuracy, the Revised Yer
sion has never taken the place of the
older version, either for home or
Church use."