Something odd in the Douay-Rheims Bible, guys what does this mean? (Is this a Type O)

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A lot of people recommended that I should try reading the Douay-Rheims Bible, I found an online version but I’m not 100% sure that its the same one. What does this mean & why isn’t it in my other Bibles?

**Gen 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: ]**she **shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for **her heel.Douay-Rheims (RHE)

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Gen 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;]** he** shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise** his heel." REV-CE

I checked my NAB & NKJV they also read** he/his**?
Why does one Bible say She/Her & the other He/His.
Its really interesting, has any one else has noticed this? :confused:

Hope I don’t offend any one by asking this question, I am really curious why one says one thing & the other says something difference. 🤷

🙂 Thanks for your help:)
 
This is from the Haydock Bible Commentary

Ver. 15. She shall crush. Ipsa, the woman: so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz. the seed. The sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent’s head. (Challoner) — The Hebrew text, as Bellarmine observes, is ambiguous: He mentions one copy which had ipsa instead of ipsum; and so it is even printed in the Hebrew interlineary edition, 1572, by Plantin, under the inspection of Boderianus. Whether the Jewish editions ought to have more weight with Christians, or whether all the other manuscripts conspire against this reading, let others inquire. The fathers who have cited the old Italic version, taken from the Septuagint agree with the Vulgate, which is followed by almost all the Latins; and hence we may argue with probability, that the Septuagint and the Hebrew formerly acknowledged ipsa, which now moves the indignation of Protestants so much, as if we intended by it to give any divine honour to the blessed Virgin. We believe, however, with St. Epiphanius, that “it is no less criminal to vilify the holy Virgin, than to glorify her above measure.” We know that all the power of the mother of God is derived from the merits of her Son. We are no otherwise concerned about the retaining of ipsa, she, in this place, that in as much as we have yet no certain reason to suspect its being genuine. As some words have been corrected in the Vulgate since the Council of Trent by Sixtus V. and others, by Clement VIII. so, if, upon stricter search, it be found that it, and not she, is the true reading, we shall not hesitate to admit the correction: but we must wait in the mean time respectfully, till our superiors determine. (Haydock) Kemnitzius certainly advanced a step too far, when he said that all the ancient fathers read ipsum. Victor, Avitus, St. Augustine, St. Gregory, &c. mentioned in the Douay Bible, will convict him of falsehood. Christ crushed the serpent’s head by his death, suffering himself to be wounded in the heel. His blessed mother crushed him likewise, by her co-operation in the mystery of the Incarnation; and by rejecting, with horror, the very first suggestions of the enemy, to commit even the smallest sin. (St. Bernard, ser. 2, on Missus est.) “We crush,” says St. Gregory, Mor. 1. 38, “the serpent’s head, when we extirpate from our heart the beginnings of temptation, and then he lays snares for our heel, because he opposes the end of a good action with greater craft and power.” The serpent may hiss and threaten; he cannot hurt, if we resist him. (Haydock)

However I wish I could break it down any farther but I can’t. I don’t 100% understand this one myself. Maybe you could get something out of this passage
 
Many statues of the Virgin Mary have a snake under her feet.

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Mea_Culpa said:
Many statues of the Virgin Mary have a snake under her feet.

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I’ve noticed that but never knew that there was a Bible verse about this. I love the photo you posted it is so beautiful:D

After some thought it really looks like both versions say the same thing just differently 😃 Thanks guys 👍
 
It is not unusual, throughout the Bible, to have variant readings.
Some ancient manuscripts have one wording and others have another wording.
It may well be that both wordings are truths intended by God.
 
Ron_Conte said:
It is not unusual, throughout the Bible, to have variant readings.
Some ancient manuscripts have one wording and others have another wording.
It may well be that both wordings are truths intended by God.
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Yes; after all the variants in this case are both true (Mary and her Offspring crushing the head of the serpent), as the Haydock makes clear.
 
RosaryGirl_777 said:
A lot of people recommended that I should try reading the Douay-Rheims Bible, I found an online version but I’m not 100% sure that its the same one. What does this mean & why isn’t it in my other Bibles?

**Gen 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: ]**she ****shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for **her **heel.Douay-Rheims (RHE)

**
Gen 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;]** he**** shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise** his **heel." REV-CE

I checked my NAB & NKJV they also read** he/his**?
Why does one Bible say She/Her & the other He/His.
Its really interesting, has any one else has noticed this? :confused:

Hope I don’t offend any one by asking this question, I am really curious why one says one thing & the other says something difference. 🤷

🙂 Thanks for your help:)
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RosaryGirl 777

When reading Holy Scripture, always ask yourself, “What is the message that God is giving me?”. There is always a message to us from God in everything He gave us in Holy Scripture.

As an example, referring to Judas:

Acts 1:16-19: “… He bought a parcel of land with the wages of his iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his insides spilled out. This became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem, so that the parcel of land was called in their language ‘Akeldama,’ that is, Field of Blood.”

Mt 27:5: “Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, ‘I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.’ Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.”

Both of the above are historically different as to how Judas died. But I believe the message here is that Judas, because of his actions, died a horrible death.

Look for the message God wants us to receive.
 
In Revelation 12 the Blessed Mother is also depicted as having the moon under her feet. The moon is a symbol of false religion (the moon’s crescent is a symbol of Islam, f’rinstance) such as the religion of the ancient Babylonians. The moon stands for all false religion and the figure of Mary standing atop the moon is a sign of the Church’s victory over false belief and error.
 
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