Battle of the Bibles - Present Truth

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In 1583, while writing to a Jesuit, Dr Fulke mentioned that Bishop Lindanus had written a whole book on how he longed to have the "errors, vices, corruptions, additions, detractions, mutilations, uncertainties, obscurities, pollutions, barbarisms and solecisms of the Vulgar Latin translation corrected and reformed". He also quoted a monk, Isidarius Clarius, as saying that the Catholic Latin Vulgate was: 'full of errors, almost innumerable" (Fulke, "Defence of Translations of the Bible" (1583) p 62, cited in, "Our Authorised Bible Vindicated", p 49). It was from this Latin Vulgate that the Douay Bible was translated into English (1609) in order to counter the English Protestant Bibles flowing from Tyndale's translation which relied on the Greek Testament of Erasmus. These Bibles were branded and burned by Rome as, "Waldensian Bibles" because they had a common pedigree. When in 1611 the King James Version appeared, it too had a pedigree similar to the "Waldensian Bibles" or the Itala, for they are all of the traditional Received Text line. As the Rheims-Douay Bible (1582, 1609) was circulated in an attempt to counteract the "Waldensian Bibles", many differences were apparent. Yet, it did not contain the blatant discrepancies that would have existed had the Rheims Douay slavishly followed Constantine's Eusebius Bible. But this is exactly what happened when in 1881 Westcott and Hort reverted to the Greek Text of Eusebius by using the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, for these are considered to be two surviving Constantine Bibles. There is a second reason why the Douay Bible of today agrees more often with the KJ V than with many of the modern versions. Let the Roman Catholics explain why: "The version now in use has been so seriously altered that it can be scarcely considered identical with that which went by the name of the Douay Bible ... Although the Bibles in use at the present day by the Catholics of England and Ireland are popularly styled the Douay Version, they are most improperly called; they are founded with more or less alteration, on a series of revisions by Bishop Challoner in 1749-1752 ... The changes introduced by him are so considerable that, according to Cardinal Newman, they almost amounted to a new translation. So, also, Cardinal Wiseman wrote, 'to call it any longer the Douay or Rheimish Version is an abuse of terms. It has been altered and modified until scarcely any verse remains as it was originally published. In nearly every case, Challoner's changes took the form approximating to the Authorised Version "' ("The Catholic Encyclopedia", Article Douay Bible). Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Here we have an implied admission by Rome that her Latin Vulgate is inferior to the Received Text. So, in an attempt to gain credibility in the English-speaking world, she was willing to modify what she has consistently claimed to be the true text! We have noted the way in which revised versions have built on the doubts injected into the Revised Version by Westcott and Hort. Yet, amazingly, we later find the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible often adopting the errors of the RV and RSV thus placing itself at variance with the Douay! To explain this, we must remember the crafty way in which the Roman Cardinals, Wiseman and Newman, brought about the so-called revision of the KJV. They let alleged Protestants do the odious work which they themselves, as open converts to Catholicism dare not undertake - namely, to insinuate the corrupt Bibles of Eusebius and Jerome into 16
the Protestant Bible. Having achieved this goal, and having the satisfaction of seeing subsequent Revisions build upon those errors, it is only logical that in its own Bibles, Rome should eventually follow suit. This she has done at an appropriate time - shortly after the Vatican II Council (1962 to 1965) - in the form of the Jerusalem Bible. In this Bible we see the affinity between Rome and her brainchild, the Revised Version, and the similarity between it and the New International Version. Both the JB and the NIV can be fairly described as interconfessional Bibles. Both made their debut following the ecumenical deliberations of the Vatican II Council. The translators of the NIV relied heavily on the United Bible Society's Greek New Testament in which there was Roman Catholic participation. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the Jerusalem Bible translators made use of the same UBS Greek text. Isn't this part of the scenario which Monsignor Alberto Ablondi has in mind when, in 1984, he saw the interconfessional Bibles as "One of the most important advancements of post Vatican II ecumenism - and important step towards unity"? Amazing! Isn't it? When Rome's Bibles failed to replace the Protestant's Bible, she imitated it. Then she tricked Protestants into adopting what she had once abandoned and then pretended to follow them! Rome can be facile, but she is never docile. The scenario of current papal global strategy is boldly outlined by the Jesuit Dr Malachi Martin in his book, "The Keys of This Blood". He speaks of a New World Order: "Rooted in the moral laws of human behaviour revealed by God through the teaching of Christ, as proposed by Christ's Church" (p 19). Which church? The church that for centuries sought to deprive the world of the written Word; the church which waged a relentless war against the custodians of the Word; the church which during the Protestant Reformation lost the "Battle of the Bibles", and now has re-equipped its forces with interconfessional Bibles; the church that has inveigled Protestants into abandoning their Mighty Fortress thus allowing the enemy to undermine the very foundation of their existence! Does this mean the "Battle of the Bibles" is over? Not at all! "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the Word of our God shall stand forever" (Isaiah 40:8). Chapter Twenty-Eight Conclusion "What is truth?" exclaimed Pontius Pilate and then assuaged his ruffled conscience with the symbolic act of hand washing. Since then, the history of Christianity has been a record of the struggle of Christ's followers who heeded and lived the prayer of their Master to His heavenly Father on their behalf "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth". (John 17:17). Mountain fastnesses, catacombs, dungeon walls, the rack, gibbet and fiery stake have borne witness to the fidelity of God's people who "Loved not their lives unto the death" (Revelation 12:11). Thus was preserved for future generations the Word of God which sets men free. It is all too easy and enticingly convenient for us whose liberty has been bought with the blood of the martyrs, to forget Rome's traditional hatred of God's living Word. We are all too inclined to indulge our wishful thinking, that such abhorrent behaviour was 17
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Table of Contents By way of introdu
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Section One Chapters One to Eleven
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Wycliffe's unpretentious priests gl
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Chapter Two Colet and Erasmus Desid
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friends rallied around him and with
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day but they have taken on a more v
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With Erasmus's translation, Tyndale
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Jane Seymour, the third of Henry's
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On March 27, 1555, at the tender ag
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attacked and destroyed monasteries
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convenient to quit his position as
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This was the apogee of Philip's rei
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• That Scripture can only be inte
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Finisterre in North Western Spain t
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negotiated with winds not always fa
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for Protestantism to bring forth a
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Section Two Chapters Twelve to Fift
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which they themselves have shortene
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Perhaps more importantly, it had, b
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Wilkinson sees this as proof that e
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"Having continued his labours in Sc
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John, in his final years, assisted
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Page 55 and 56: A relatively small minority, repres
Page 57 and 58: sales were very good, this was enti
Page 59 and 60: 17 Dr Schaff's attitude to Matthew
Page 61 and 62: was formed, known as the Trinitaria
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Page 67 and 68: It was not long before wishful-thin
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Page 85 and 86: Isaiah 7:14 "Behold a virgin shall
Page 87 and 88: "A son of God" does not equate with
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