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the most part during the Middle
Ages in Latin for the simple reason
that it was the language of the edu-
Gated class DR.. Catts (Protessa anti
in his book Turning Points in
Eng. Church History" says: An
other common error IS that The
clergy We're unwilling that the Iaity
should read the Bible for themselves
and carefully kept it in an unknown
tongue that the people might not
read it. The truth is that most
people who could read at ali, read
Latin and would certainly prefer to
read the Authorised VuIgate to
any vernacular version. " Latin
was then the language Of all men
Of culture" remarks DR.. 2. Payne,
Protestant, in the Literary World of
Oct. 1894, and to an extent probably
lar beyond what we at present real
ize, the common language Of Europe.
That the Church wanted her people
to have access. to the Scriptures, is
plain from the fact that, she had
version made from the original Ian
guages, Hebrew and Greek, as early
as the 2nd century, known as the
Vetus italia, Old Latin. About the
year $50 Pope Damascus commissions
ed St. Jerome to make another trans,
latf0n from the original languages,
and this translation got the name
Vulgate or popular version. AS
European nations developed a YER
nacular literature, the Bible was
translated into the different Ian
guages. As far back as the 18th
century and the first half of the Sth,
there were Anglo Saxon versions by
Caedman and Yer Bede, In the
18th German by William of Ebers-
berg, several in French in the 18th,
Icelandic in the 18th. Irish and
Swedish in the 14th. After print
ing was invented 1889, the first
book printed about 1855 was a Bible.
Before the Reformation" began the
following editions existed: 80 in Ger
man, &c in French, 20 in italian,
10 in Flemish, 6 inB ohemian, 2 in
| Spanish and one in SIavonic The
Church does not forbid her children
to read the Bible, she wants them
to read it, but in its entirety, and
correctly translated. She does OBJ
| ject to a defective Bible, be it by
omission, addition or imperfect, mis-
leading and false translation. 1t is
well known fact that, the first
Protestant versions were so notori-
ously corrupt, as to cause a general
outbreak against them among learn
ed Protestants and Catholics i'll
which King James himself joined.
Bishop Watsons Collect. Vol. 3, p.
SO.
ct has long been a notorious
fact says Mr.. Allnott in his Bible
and the Reformation, that all the
early protestant versions of the
! Bible sWarmed with gross and flag
rant corruptioDs,-c orruptions con
sisting in the wilful and deliberate
mistransIations of various passages
Of the sacred text and all directly
aimed against those doctrines and
practices of the Catholic Church
which the "Reformers' were most
anxious to uproot." No wonder the
! Council of Trent took steps to safe
guard the Scriptures The DEGREES
when read in full, as we'll as the
| Encyclicals of the several pOpe9
simply prove that the Catholic churcl
xviii not tolerate that her people
should be exposed to the dangre of
reading changed or falsified copies.
It is a matter of common knowledge
that the Protestant Bible OF today,
not to mention other differences,
| has seven books less than the
Catholic. Namely: Tobias, Baruch,
Judith, Wisdom, Eccleasticus, :
Machabees, II Machabees, together
with seven chapters Of the book
of Esther and IS verses of the 3rd
chapter of Daniel The Churches
opposition to the efforts of the
Bible Societies is not because she
dislikes the word of God. Let the
Bible Societies give their colpor-
tours Authorised Catholic Versions
and they will meet with no opposi-