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SerfOfJMJ
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What is it about the Douay-Rheims Bible that you like the most? Feel free to expound.
(If you don’t like it, be respectful and post why.)
(If you don’t like it, be respectful and post why.)
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God_I_Love
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I like it as it seems to me to have the purest translation on most things. For example the Douay, as far as I know, is the only one to translate psalm 110:3 intelligibly into English, and it just so happens to be one of my favorite verses. Compare:
‘‘With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.’’ DRA
‘‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.’’ KJV
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PJH_74
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I guess if you want tradition it might be a nice translation. But being translated from the Latin Vulgate and written in a 450 year old dialect of English, doesn’t make it a great study Bible.
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Neofight
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I’ve often wondered if anyone short of a biblical and linguistic scholar can really make a strong argument that any version is true, accurate, good, et al, translation, without having a good understanding of the original text as well as the language at the time of the translation.
No. The only way to determine if a translation is good is to have a solid grasp of both the source and target languages.
Because a translation is free of error in faith and morals does not guarantee that it is a good translation.
Neither does its being commissioned by Catholic bishops.
Neither does its being commissioned by Protestant scholars.
Neither does its including “Catholic-friendly” passages and renderings.
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TimothyH
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What does “traditionality” mean?
The language is too archaic. I spend more time and effort on the meaning of the words and unfamiliar sentence structure than I do actually reading and absorbing God’s word.
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The language is too archaic. I spend more time and effort on the meaning of the words and unfamiliar sentence structure than I do actually reading and absorbing God’s word.
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Archaichism isn’t so much the problem for me as it is the Latinisms. I find the DR reads too much like Latin masquerading as English.
As far as the archaic English goes, I’d still very much prefer the King James over the DR. And besides that, I just cannot stand reading about Noe, Josue, Elias, Eliseus, Isaias, Jeremias, Osee, Abdias, etc. or the books Paralipomenon and 1 and 2 Esdras.
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InnocentSmith
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Quite simply, I find it a beautiful translation with good footnotes.
Others might not find it easy to read, and of course there are more modern translations if they wish to use those. But I grew up on the King James Version, so once I became a Catholic, I naturally loved the Douay-Rheims.
Others might not find it easy to read, and of course there are more modern translations if they wish to use those. But I grew up on the King James Version, so once I became a Catholic, I naturally loved the Douay-Rheims.
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COPLAND_3
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I chose the traditional side, since it is a translation of the Latin Vulgate, the Vulgate was the standard version for so many centuries. There is no real standard version any more and all the textual criticism has become a eclectic playground for scholars. I dont particularly like Old English and I think the DR is in bad need of revision, but only minor changes that only update spelling and phrases that hurt the ears. I have done some of that myself and published some volumes, but sort of gotten away from it.
At this point I am not bothered that bad anymore about all the thee’s and thou’s, but i used to dispise them.
At this point I am not bothered that bad anymore about all the thee’s and thou’s, but i used to dispise them.
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QNDNNDQDCE
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The Douay-Rheims Bible that most people use is not the original, but an 18th Century revision. It contains “thees” and “thous,” but the actual language is not especially archaic. It reads significantly easier, in my opinion, than the King James, which is much older. Any perceived difficulty stems chiefly from how literal (word for word) the translation is.
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SFH
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I really like the translation on The Catholic Bible Project website, wwww.thecatholicbible project.org, but it isn’t complete yet. They just have the New Testament and part of the Old Testament.
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TimothyH
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The names are frustrating to me as well, especially the abbreviation “ecclus”.
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Zooey
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It is the closest thing I know of, to a version that is word for word translated from the Latin Vulgate. I actually have a copy of the Vulgate, & I can put them side by side & see the way the DR follows the Latin. This helps me with getting one step closer to the original texts.
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aragonjohn1
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Jerurussia
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*No. The only way to determine if a translation is good is to have a solid grasp of both the source and target languages.
Because a translation is free of error in faith and morals does not guarantee that it is a good translation.
Neither does its being commissioned by Catholic bishops.
Neither does its being commissioned by Protestant scholars.
Neither does its including “Catholic-friendly” passages and renderings. *
BWAHAAAHAHAHA! AS IF THE 2,000 YEAR OLD CHURCH FOUNDED BY JESUS CHRIST (GREEK FOR: YESHUA HA MESHIACH) ON PETER THE ROCK SKATED THROUGH ON “CATHOLIC FRIENDLY” PASSAGES! I loves me that grumpy old man, Jerome, and his grumpy old Jewish rabbi friends. And I loves me that Douay-Rheims-Challonier translatimification. But most of all I loves me Messiah, and Christ’s Church.
Because a translation is free of error in faith and morals does not guarantee that it is a good translation.
Neither does its being commissioned by Catholic bishops.
Neither does its being commissioned by Protestant scholars.
Neither does its including “Catholic-friendly” passages and renderings. *
BWAHAAAHAHAHA! AS IF THE 2,000 YEAR OLD CHURCH FOUNDED BY JESUS CHRIST (GREEK FOR: YESHUA HA MESHIACH) ON PETER THE ROCK SKATED THROUGH ON “CATHOLIC FRIENDLY” PASSAGES! I loves me that grumpy old man, Jerome, and his grumpy old Jewish rabbi friends. And I loves me that Douay-Rheims-Challonier translatimification. But most of all I loves me Messiah, and Christ’s Church.
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