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This etext was prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia and
Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.

THE HOLY BIBLE

Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in
Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at
Douay A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at
Rheims A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate
by Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752

VOLUME III: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND

SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST

CREDIT
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McCarthy assisted Mr. Book and transcribed selections from the first
editions included as appendices.

HISTORY
This three volume e-text set comes from multiple editions of
Challoner's revised Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible. The
division of the Old Testaments into two parts follows the two tome
format of the 1609/1610 printing of the Old Testament. In 1568 English
exiles, many from Oxford, established the English College of Douay
(Douai/Doway), Flanders, under William (later Cardinal) Allen. In
October, 1578, Gregory Martin began the work of preparing an English
translation of the Bible for Catholic readers, the first such translation

into Modern English. Assisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow,
Thomas Worthington, and William Reynolds who revised, criticized,
and corrected Dr. Martin's work. The college published the New
Testament at Rheims (Reims/Rhemes), France, in 1582 through John
Fogny with a preface and explanatory notes, authored chiefly by Bristol,
Allen, and Worthington. Later the Old Testament was published at
Douay in two parts (1609 and 1610) by Laurence Kellam through the
efforts of Dr. Worthington, then superior of the seminary. The
translation had been prepared before the appearance of the New
Testament, but the publication was delayed due to financial difficulties.
The religious and scholarly adherence to the Latin Vulgate text led to
the less elegant and idiomatic words and phrases often found in the
translation. In some instances where no English word conveyed the full
meaning of the Latin, a Latin word was Anglicized and its meaning
defined in a glossary. Although ridiculed by critics, many of these
words later