Douay Rheims

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Douay Rheims
How many editions are there? What are the differences between them?
Someone claims that a certain printing of the King James Bible is the standard text. He calls his edition the Pure Cambridge Edition and has a 12 point checklist plus one to see if it’s the PCE or not. His website is www.bibleprotector.com. He lists the various editions of the KJB that were used throughout history including comparisons of differences between the London or Westminster as I call it, Oxford and Cambridge.The question is who has a list of all the various Douay Rheims editions and collect the variations between them to arrive at the Pure Douay Rheims or pick an edition of it that is standard. Another thing to do is get a Douay Rheims Bible and mark places where ever there are differences between them. Give the Protestants a run for their money on this point. The 1899 seems to be th standard now.
 
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Douay Rheims
How many editions are there? What are the differences between them?
Someone claims that a certain printing of the King James Bible is the standard text. He calls his edition the Pure Cambridge Edition and has a 12 point checklist plus one to see if it’s the PCE or not. His website is www.bibleprotector.com. He lists the various editions of the KJB that were used throughout history including comparisons of differences between the London or Westminster as I call it, Oxford and Cambridge.The question is who has a list of all the various Douay Rheims editions and collect the variations between them to arrive at the Pure Douay Rheims or pick an edition of it that is standard. Another thing to do is get a Douay Rheims Bible and mark places where ever there are differences between them. Give the Protestants a run for their money on this point. The 1899 seems to be th standard now.
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Of all the editions of the Douay-Rheims published in the past 500-some years, the revision made by Bishop Richard Challoner and published in 1750 is by far the most common. You would be hard pressed to find any other version currently published and offered for sale.

However, I don’t think we would make any headway along your proposed line of argument. The Douay-Rheims Bible is just one version of the Bible permitted for liturgical use in English, but there is no “standard” Bible in the Catholic Church. I suppose the closest you could come is the Vulgate of St. Jerome, which was defined as free from error by the Council of Trent.

One of the things that has always confused me about Protestants holding to the KJV as definite . . . would they have the rest of the non-English speaking world learn English, just to read the Scripture?

Anyway, there are excellent articles about the Douay-Rheims Bible on Wikipedia and the Catholic Encyclopedia, and I encourage you to read more.
 
The original 1610 Douay-Rheims was very Latinized English. It would be almost unreadable if you have no Latin background. I’ve never actually seen a hard copy, only examples online. I don’t think that anyone publishes the original D-R.

Then there is the Richard Challoner revision that was completed in 1752. This is the edition that is published today. It is almost completely different from the original. It is the version used by Baronius Press, TAN, Haydock’s Commintary of 1859, St. Benedict Press, ect.
 
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One of the things that has always confused me about Protestants holding to the KJV as definite . . . would they have the rest of the non-English speaking world learn English, just to read the Scripture?
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And condemn the Catholic Church for her use of Latin with the same breath.
 
TradAvenger said:
One of the things that has always confused me about Protestants holding to the KJV as definite . . . would they have the rest of the non-English speaking world learn English, just to read the Scripture?
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One could always tell them that they’ll have to learn Old English to read the Old Testament. 😃
 
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One of the things that has always confused me about Protestants holding to the KJV as definite . . . would they have the rest of the non-English speaking world learn English, just to read the Scripture?
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No.
 
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