[af_vet_1981]

As to the old saw that the word is not in the Bible, the Latin Vulgate has the Latin word rapio in the 1 Cor 4:13-18 passage, and it is from that we get 'rapture'.

So you claim to get "The Rapture" from the Catholic translation of First Corinthians, Catholic chapter four, Protestant verses thirteen to eighteen ... preposterous; here is the Douay Reims translation. It is completely unrelated.

We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now. I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach everywhere in every church. 18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

[MHGinTN]

Oops! My mistake. It should read 1 Thess 4:13-18. You really enjoy jumping on that though. ;o)

[Elsie]

So you claim to get "The Rapture" from the Catholic translation of First Corinthians, Catholic chapter four, Protestant verses thirteen to eighteen ... preposterous; here is the Douay Reims translation.

This ain't the Vulgate...