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RARE family bible in acceptable condition; please check BookFinder.com website to confirm world prices and world availability of this book . Published date unsure - shown as 1857, but the New Testament section is dated at 1863. Black leather board cover showing faded gilt lettering on the spine; bookbinder’s stamp on back endpaper; minor bumping to spine and cover’s corners; personalised inscription to front endpaper; foxing and water staining to text block pages; foxing on page edges; illustration missing between pages 442 & 443 in Old Testament; slight tear at bottom of pages 139/140 in New Testament; small ink stain to pages 205/206; pages 207-212 missing from Historical Index . Will protect with bubble wrap and send as Australia Post Standard Small Satchel with tracking. This is a Catholic Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate to English by the English College Douai and St. Jerome. This bible contains the 14 books which Martin Luther removed from the bible. This is why protestants use the King James version, which is the protestant version with the 14 books removed. To add on, King James was a protestant, so his version of the bible is untrustworthy to Catholics. The Douay Rheims bible uses old English, which is the closest English to the Traditional Latin Vulgate. Often, newer versions of the bible use modern English, and they slowly stray away from the truth because the words have to be changed, and the bible loses its meaning because of this language confusion. This bible is preferred by traditional Catholics, because it is considered the best English version of the bible at the Council of Trent and other councils of the Catholic Church. Lastly, this version has been used by the Catholic Church for hundreds of years before the confusion caused by the Second Vatican Council.
Ambuj Kathotiya
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