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Cojuanco
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For an English translation, the Douay-Rheims, though you don’t see that used too much these days.
Of course, there is no substitute for the Vulgate.
Of course, there is no substitute for the Vulgate.
Traditional Catholics: Which Catholic Bible version do you prefer?
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Jotobo
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Huh…I have one and they are all in there
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Young_Thinker
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Hmm…my mistake, I guess.
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Shin
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The Douay-Rheims is the traditionally knowledgeable Catholic’s Bible of choice.
Perhaps he might read something else, as a less used alternate, but it is the main, the core, the foundation, the key, the everything.
Why is this the case? Because of the Vulgate, and because of the translation quality, the holiness and goodness of the translators, and too but not only that the language that it uses is Catholic.
The Jerusalem has more Catholic language than the rest of the lot, but this is not saying much relatively. The footnotes are bad. All the other Bibles footnotes are bad. Only the Douay’s footnotes are all good.
In times past a Bible with bad footnotes would be burned. No, I’m serious. It was required by law. Bad Bibles -did not- make it out the door, and if they made it out the door -that was the end of them-. Because this was so displeasing to God, and dangerous to the souls of men. Now it is common. They get called ‘Catholic’.
Terrible business. People who can put footnotes that are bad in a Bible, are not going to publish a proper translation. There are going to be -problems-. You won’t -see- them unless you -know- what to look for, but they will -be there-.
You might learn to see them if you read the Douay enough and see the differences.
So the traditional Catholic goes to the Douay-Rheims. He gets over if in fact he has any problem with the language in the first place and doesn’t love it – he gets over that.
And he learns the faith better because of the spirituality of the language of the Douay Rheims.
Perhaps he might read something else, as a less used alternate, but it is the main, the core, the foundation, the key, the everything.
Why is this the case? Because of the Vulgate, and because of the translation quality, the holiness and goodness of the translators, and too but not only that the language that it uses is Catholic.
The Jerusalem has more Catholic language than the rest of the lot, but this is not saying much relatively. The footnotes are bad. All the other Bibles footnotes are bad. Only the Douay’s footnotes are all good.
In times past a Bible with bad footnotes would be burned. No, I’m serious. It was required by law. Bad Bibles -did not- make it out the door, and if they made it out the door -that was the end of them-. Because this was so displeasing to God, and dangerous to the souls of men. Now it is common. They get called ‘Catholic’.
Terrible business. People who can put footnotes that are bad in a Bible, are not going to publish a proper translation. There are going to be -problems-. You won’t -see- them unless you -know- what to look for, but they will -be there-.
You might learn to see them if you read the Douay enough and see the differences.
So the traditional Catholic goes to the Douay-Rheims. He gets over if in fact he has any problem with the language in the first place and doesn’t love it – he gets over that.
And he learns the faith better because of the spirituality of the language of the Douay Rheims.
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awatkins69
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I think the introductions and footnotes in the Jerusalem Bible are great. And even though it is more modern than the Rheims, it is still extremely orthodox. The difference between the Rheims and Jerusalem footnotes is that the Rheims footnotes are for a polemical purpose, while the Jerusalem footnotes are for a critical, scholarly, and clarifying purpose.
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BettyM
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I am curious looking at this poll. Why do very few read the NAB. I am not asking because it is the one I prefer. I am planning on purchasing a Douay Rheims. I have an NAB but it seems like many Catholics, at least the 85 that took this poll, and another poll I saw somewhere else, either read the Douay Rheims or the Revised Standard Version-CE.
What I find interesting is we have a large Catholic bookstore in our area and when you go to the bible section there are very few DR and RSVs and many, many NABs.
What is the history of the NAB?
What I find interesting is we have a large Catholic bookstore in our area and when you go to the bible section there are very few DR and RSVs and many, many NABs.
What is the history of the NAB?
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