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...achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the question of what the angels sang in their well-known announcement of Jesus' birth has long bothered Biblical scholars. "And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls the idiom is found in its original form: "good will to men of [God's] favor," i.e., the elect in the apocalyptic...
Most Protestants, uncommitted to Mary's perpetual virginity, see no reason not to accept Jesus' brothers as real brothers. They point to the Douay version's "And he [Joseph] knew her not till she brought forth her first-born son" (Matthew 1:25), and "And she brought forth her first-born son" (Luke 2:7). To that Catholics reply that Scriptural use of the word "firstborn" connotes a woman's first child but does not neces-j sarily indicate later children...
...translation of the Psalms came out last week. The new Psalms, issued by the Roman Catholic Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, lacked the high literary shine of Msgr. Ronald Knox's version (TIME, March 24, 1947), but they often make the triple-translated renderings of the Catholic Douay Version* sound like a third-year Latin scholar reading at sight. Sample (Psalm...
...Psalms in the Douay Bible are translated from a Latin translation of a Greek translation of the Hebrew. Though most of the Latin Vulgate on which the Douay Bible is based is taken directly from the Hebrew, the 4th Century scholars were reluctant, when the Vulgate was being made, to give up the older versions of the Psalms, most of which they had learned by heart...
...long last, the Catholics have recognized and adopted the beauty of the King James phrasing. Example: "God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." The older Catholic Bible in English, the Douay, had the far less lovely: "And God said: Be light made. And light was made...