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...pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
Last week the first volume (19 books) of Knox's Old Testament was published in the U.S. (Sheed & Ward; $7). Volume II will be out next year (his New Testament was published in 1944). Some Catholic authorities have long regretted that the job of re-translating the Vulgate* had not been given to Cardinal Newman. In Monsignor Knox they found another master of scholarship and prose...
Without Impediment. "Anyone who writes Latin poetry at the age of twelve is bound to end up doing something like translating the Bible," said a Knox acquaintance recently. From his Eton days, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, now 60, has been noted for his witty, agile mind. The sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both his grandfathers were also Protestant divines), he grew up in what his autobiography calls "that form of Protestant piety which the modern world half regrets, half derides as 'old-fashioned...
When he was 15, Knox began to take up religion seriously on his own. A friend came down with typhoid and, feeling that he must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...
...after winning almost every attainable honor at Oxford, Knox, then only 24, became Anglican chaplain of Oxford's Trinity College. He seemed to be having a wonderful time-preaching, talking, and turning out books. But his soul was not at peace. "Authority played a large part in my belief," he later explained. In September 1917, after resigning his Oxford chaplaincy, he joined the Roman Catholic Church...