Copyright © By Dr. Adel Elsaie, Book Title: "Please Revise the Bible, Again"

4.3.1 Roman Catholic Version

 

Roman Catholics in English-speaking countries commonly used the Douay or Douay-Rheims Bible, completed between 1582 and 1609. The Douay Bible was a translation from the Latin Vulgate, primarily the work of two English exiles in France, William Allen (1532-1594) and Gregory Martin (1540?-1582). The Douay-Rheims Bible consists of an edition of the New Testament that was prepared and released in 1582 at Rheims, France, and another edition of the Old Testament that was prepared and released in 1609 at the French town of Douay. The resulting combination became known as the Douay-Rheims. It was revised considerably in the eighteenth century   by the English bishop Richard Challoner.

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Roman Catholics replaced the Douay and Challoner Bibles with other translations. In the United States, one of the most widely used is the New American Bible of 1970. It is the first complete Bible to be translated from Hebrew and Greek by American Roman Catholics.

 

The Roman Catholic Version, RCV, is the oldest version that one can buy today. Despite its antiquity, the whole Protestant world condemns the RCV, because it contains seven extra books, which they refer to as the Apocrypha. These books are: Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 Machabees, and 2 Machabees. Notwithstanding the terrible warning contained in the Apocalypse, which is the last book in the RCV (renamed as “Revelation” by the Protestant), it is “revealed”:

 

Revelation 22:18-19 “If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”

 

In spite of the above warning, the Protestants have eliminated or the Catholics have added seven whole books from their “Word of God”.