Scriptural Snippets

In the same Spirit as yesterday's offering, I bring you Jeremias 1:4-5.

In case you were wondering about the Douay Rheims Bible, this is from the title page of the original edition of 1582:

"The New Testament of Jesus Christ translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred with the Greek and other editions in divers languages. With Arguments of Books and Chapters, annotations, and other necessary helps for the better understanding of the text, and specially for the discovery of the corruptions of divers late translations, and for clearing the controveries in religion of these days..."

The translation to English was done by Catholics who had fled England in fear of the new church there begun by Henry VIII, who was a heretic, schismatic, and mass murderer.