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Editor's office he smashed his Douay down upon the desk and produced from a fold of his garment-TIME, April...
...apocryphal Bible story of Susanna appears in the Douay (Catholic) version, not in the King James (Protestant). Daniel XIII: "Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim: And he took a wife whose name was Susanna ... a very beautiful woman. . . . And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year. . . . And when the people departed Susanna went in and walked in her husband's orchard. And the old men saw her . . . and they were inflamed with lust towards her. . . . She went in on a time . . . and was desirous...
...adultery. Attorney for the defense was the young prophet Daniel who proved perjury by examining the witnesses separately. Puritans who object to the depiction of Susanna in art cannot read about her in their Bibles. Omitted from the King James version, the story may be found in the Douay version (for Roman Catholics), Daniel XIII...