Author Topic: Questions about the Bible (Read 941 times)

Dulcamara · « **on:** August 12, 2010, 06:13:44 PM »

When was it officially compiled, and by whom?

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2010, 07:39:14 PM »

This book (Where we got the Bible) answers more than you asked, but it is a great resource:

http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/wbible.htm

MyrnaM · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2010, 08:38:41 PM »

Dulcamara · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2010, 10:54:14 PM »

I was just asking who COMPILED it. I knew it was written by many authors.

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2010, 10:55:45 PM »

The Church compiled it. As to the details, I would have to re-read, and ask you to see, the first chapters of the book I linked above.

Emerentiana · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2010, 11:02:53 PM »

Quote from: Dulcamara

I was just asking who COMPILED it. I knew it was written by many authors.

This was in the fourth century of our era. By this time St Jerome was born, there was great need of securing a correct and uniform text in Latin of Holy Scripture, for there was danger, through the variety and corrupt conditions of many translations then existing, lest the pure scripture should be lost. So Jerome, who was a monk, and perhaps the most learned scholar of his day, at the command of Pope St Damascus in 382 A.D., made a fresh Latin Version of the New Testament (which was by this time practically settled) correcting the existing versions by the earliest Greek MSS. he could find. Then in his cell at Bethlehem, between (approximately) the years 392-404, he also translated the Old Testament into Latin directly from the Hebrew (and not from the Greek Septuagint)—except the Psalter, which he had previously revised from existing Latin Versions. This Bible was the celebrated Vulgate, the official text in the Catholic Church, the value of which all scholars admit to be simply inestimable, and which continued to influence all other versions, and to hold the chief place among Christians down to the Reformation. I say the 'official' text, because the Council of Trent in 1546 issued a decree, stamping it as the only recognised and authoritative Version allowed to Catholics. 'If anyone does not receive the entire books with all their parts as they are accustomed to be read in the Catholic Church, and in the old Latin Vulgate Edition, as sacred and canonical ... let him be anathema.' It was revised under Pope Sixtus V in 1590, and again under Pope Clement VIII in 1593, who is responsible for the present standard text. It is from the Vulgate that our English Douai Version comes; and it is of this same Vulgate that the Commission under Cardinal Gasquet, by command of the Pope, is trying to find or restore the original text as it came from the hands of St Jerome, uncorrupted by and stripped of subsequent admixtures with other Latin copies.[/b]