“The ancient texts which Jerome consulted for his translation are no longer extant. The early Church Fathers held that these texts were more faithful to the original Scripture autographs than any manuscript that survived Jerome, thus rendering Jerome’s Vulgate and the Douay Rheims’ translation of it, the surviving pristine fountain of Bible accuracy.”
Bible Wars • The Conspiracy Against the Douay Rheims Vulgate and the Geneva Apocrypha
by Michael Hoffman
Revisionist History Newsletter, Number 38, November 2005
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