The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete: The Challoner Revision
1609
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete: The Challoner Revision
1609
The Douay-Rheims stands as the English Bible of Catholic Christendom. Unlike later translations that prioritized accessibility, it preserves the formal dignity of the Latin Vulgate, rendering scripture in a language that feels ancient even as it was being written. This is the translation that shaped Catholic English-language devotion for four centuries, the text that converts reached for, and the one that influenced the King James Bible itself. Its pages unfold the sweeping narrative of Christian scripture: the Genesis creation, the Exodus liberation, the poetic wisdom of Job and the Psalms, the prophetic voices crying in the wilderness, and the four Gospels' radical proclamation of Christ. The New Testament letters trace the early church's struggle to understand what it meant to be Christian. The Challoner revision refined an already remarkable translation, sharpening its precision while preserving its elevated cadences. For Catholics seeking the English text their tradition intends, for literary scholars tracing how English prose found its grandest expressions, this remains the essential edition.
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“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.””
— Unknown
“{21:2} “Question the Lord on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, is fighting against us.””
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“{57:21} There is no peace for the impious, says the Lord God.””
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“{57:17} Because of the iniquity of his avarice, I was angry, and I struck him down. I concealed my face from you, and””
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“{57:2} Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.””
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“12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: 13 And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?””
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“And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.””
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“Chapter 4 1 Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. 2 Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod. 3 And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it. 4 And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod. 5 That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee. 6 And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow. 7 And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh. 8 If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign. 9 But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood. 10 Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. 11 The Lord said to him: Who made man’s mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?””
— Unknown
“4:11. For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.””
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