Found this good read:
What is the REAL Douay-Rheims Bible?
http://www.realdouayrheims.com/
There seems to be a difference between the Douay Rheims of 1582 and 1609-10 to the 18th & 19th Century Challoner-Douay revisions, which is what most people think of as the Douay-Rheims.
Heaven help us all. It is less than five months since the last extended "
discussion"—mostly consisting of slanders against honorable and orthodox Catholic scholars and prelates—of the various versions of the Douay-Rheims Bible disfigured these pages, and now we are on the brink of seeing yet another one aborning!
Please, please, Cantarella, before you write anything more, follow the link supplied above and read the thread; it should take you about an hour. I recommend that you take especial heed of the few really sound comments on the thread, most of them coming from a gentleman whose name hereabouts is AlligatorDicax. Note, too, that the principal apologist for ignorance and slander was a commenter called Cathedra. Before the thread dried up, Matthew banned him for (1) dogmatic SVism and (2) having multiple proxy accounts. One of the latter, Vinikias, took up his alter ego Cathedra's diabolic cause before his identity was discovered by Matthew and he too was banned.
Most important of all, please don't believe the rubbish about the "original" DR being "literal" and subsequent versions or modifications of it being "interpretive" or worse. These slanders come from people with little Latin, less Greek, and not even a syllable of Hebrew. It is literally—not figuratively,
literally—impossible to pronounce authoritatively on a translation's literalness or accuracy or faithfulness without at least a working knowledge of the source language. As you'll see if you read the linked thread, Cathedra and the other slanderers had no other tongues whatsoever—and to speak the plain truth, their English composition was piss poor, too.
Happy reading.
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