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The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision)Free EPUB and PDF
Why read it
For reading and praying the whole of Sacred Scripture in a venerable Catholic English translation, the one used by generations of English-speaking Catholics into the twentieth century. Its brief notes help one understand the text without leaving the page. Its English is old and close to the Latin, but has a dignity well suited to prayer.
Summary
The classic Catholic Bible in English, translated from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate and compared with the Hebrew and Greek texts. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old at Douai in 1609-1610, the work of English Catholic exiles at the English College; Bishop Richard Challoner revised it between 1749 and 1752. It contains the 73 books of the Catholic canon, with the argument of each chapter and Challoner's notes explaining difficult passages according to the teaching of the Church.
Prepared by
Juan Ignacio Alcalde G.
Quotes
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
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In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.
For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
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