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There was no “catholic Bible” in english until the KJV came along, and the catholics adopted it and renamed it the Douay Rheims (with some small changes).

Catholic Bibles of various sorts existed in latin, but in the catholic dominant countries few people were so literate as to be able to read latin, so effectively they had no Bible.

The Apocrypha are mostly historic books with little or no spiritual guidance, but some have tried to fashion doctrinal issues from them. None of those supposed doctrinal points from the Apocrypha are found supported anywhere in the general 66 canon.

202 posted on 03/22/2012 4:12:11 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)

To: editor-surveyor; SuzyQue

I believe Douay-Rheims proceeded the KJV by 29 and 2 years respectively.

203 posted on 03/22/2012 4:34:14 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)

To: editor-surveyor; SuzyQue

I got that backwards:

Rheims, NT: 1582

Douay, OT: 1609

KJV: 1611

204 posted on 03/22/2012 4:36:41 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)

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