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...King James Bible (University of Pennsylvania Press; $3.50). The sources: 19% from the Puritan influenced Geneva version of 1560; 18% from William Tyndale (d. 1536); 13% from Miles Coverdale's versions ; 4% each from the Wycliffe and Bishops' Bibles; 3% from other versions, including the Rheims-Douay Catholic Bible...
...gravely by as Frank Murphy was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, one hand on his broken-backed old Douay Bible; watched Robert H. Jackson sworn in as Attorney General...
...Daniel, Chap. 13 (Douay version...
Standard Bible for English-speaking Roman Catholics is the Douay-Reims version, named for the French towns where, at English colleges, the New Testament was translated from the Latin in 1582, the Old in 1609. To bring the Douay-Reims Bible up to date and to get a modernized Scripture approved by the U. S. hierarchy has been the aim, during the past three years, of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...
...Confraternity appointed 21 Catholic theologians to revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring to Jesus Christ; arranges the text by paragraphs, not by numbered verses. Typical revisions: "desert" for "wilderness" in the passage I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; "wine" for "vinegar" in the description of the last moments of Christ on the Cross...