Posted on 01/06/2013 3:56:49 PM PST by NYer
I finally agree with you, read scripture and ask the holy Spirit to guide you.................however.........., you cannot read any scripture that the RCC preserved, edited, saved, wrote, printed, copied, etc etc....lots of luck there
Not really. Even today scholars are able to go back to the original languages (many are experts in them) and develop translations that fit modern usage. The Douay-Rheims Bible, with extensive revisions later by Bishop Challoner, wasn't done until the sixteenth - seventeenth centuries and it was a translation from the Latin Vulgate into English (a translation of a translation). Jerome was not an expert in Hebrew when he began to create the Vulgate and he insisted on translating most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew and not the Greek Septuagint:
In 385, Jerome was forced out of Rome, and eventually settled in Bethlehem, where he was able to use a surviving manuscript of the Hexapla, likely from the nearby Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima, a columnar comparison of the variant versions of the Old Testament undertaken 150 years before by Origen. Jerome first embarked on a revision of the Psalms, translated from the revised Septuagint Greek column of the Hexapla, which later came to be called the Gallican version. He also appears to have undertaken further new translations into Latin from the Hexaplar Septuagint column for other books. But from 390 to 405, Jerome translated anew from the Hebrew all 39 books in the Hebrew Bible, including a further version of the Psalms. This new translation of the Psalms was labelled by him as "iuxta Hebraeos" (i.e. "close to the Hebrews", "immediately following the Hebrews"), and was commonly found in the Vulgate, until it was widely replaced by his Gallican psalms beginning in the 9th century.
The Vulgate is usually credited as being the first translation of the Old Testament into Latin directly from the Hebrew Tanakh, rather than the Greek Septuagint. Jerome's extensive use of exegetical material written in Greek, on the other hand, as well as his use of the Aquiline and Theodotiontic columns of the Hexapla, along with the somewhat paraphrastic style in which he translated makes it difficult to determine exactly how direct the conversion of Hebrew to Latin was.[4][5][6]
As Jerome completed his translations of each book of the Bible, he recorded his observations and comments in an extensive correspondence with other scholars; and these letters were subsequently collected and appended as prologues to the Vulgate text for those books where they survived. In these letters, Jerome described those books or portions of books in the Septuagint that were not found in the Hebrew as being non-canonical: he called them apocrypha.[7] Jerome's views did not, however, prevail; and all complete manuscripts and editions of the Vulgate include some or all these books. Of the Old Testament texts not found in the Hebrew, Jerome translated Tobit and Judith anew from the Aramaic; and from the Greek, the additions to Esther from the Septuagint, and the additions to Daniel from Theodotion. Other books; Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, 1 and 2 Maccabees[8] are variously found in Vulgate manuscripts with texts derived from the Old Latin; sometimes together with Latin versions of other texts found neither in the Hebrew Bible, nor in the Septuagint, 4 Esdras, the Prayer of Manasses and Laodiceans. Their style is still markedly distinguishable from Jerome's. In the Vulgate text, Jerome's translations from the Greek of the additions to Esther and Daniel are combined with his separate translations of these books from the Hebrew.
A recurring theme of the Old Testament prologues is Jerome's preference for the Hebraica veritas (i.e., Hebrew truth) to the Septuagint, a preference which he defended from his detractors. He stated that the Hebrew text more clearly prefigures Christ than the Greek. Among the most remarkable of these prologues is the Prologus Galeatus, in which Jerome described an Old Testament canon of 22 books, which he found represented in the 22-letter Hebrew alphabet. Alternatively, he numbered the books as 24, which he described as the 24 elders in the Book of Revelation casting their crowns before the Lamb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate
So, Martin Luther, along with several colleagues - including Erasmus, were trained in Hebrew, Greek and Latin and they translated the entire Bible into the German vernacular using, probably, the same resources Jerome may have (i.e.; the Masoretic text). I think we may be having a semantics issue here. A translation is not necessarily an entirely NEW interpretation each time it is attempted. Luther did not act alone in his work to produce the work he did and he continued to revise and perfect it throughout the rest of his life as vernacular changed and words evolved - much like is STILL done today.
My disagreement with NL was not centered around Jerome but on his insistence that Luther spent too little time, in his estimation, to produce a satisfactory enough work without adding his own "slant" and misinterpretations. He reasoned Luther must have skipped necessary "leg work" to have been able to do a complete enough job even though the sources I gave stated he worked on the New Testament for a year and completed the entire Bible after another 12 years (including modifications and corrections). Again, he was not the only one working on this project and he had multiple resources to assist him. I only brought up Jerome to address the imbalance of criticism directed at Luther's presumed "haste" when Jerome hurriedly translated the books he did not consider canonical into the Latin Vulgate.
Of course, this argument was but a sideline/diversion from the actual argument which was that Luther supposedly removed certain books from "his" German translation of the Bible. Luther did not do that, but no proof seems good enough for those who refuse to let go of the few remaining arrows they think they have to take down "Protestantism".
I appreciate your comments.
Elsie, calm down!!!!! Heretics are those who contradict the true church of Christ, Catholicism.....see!
..however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.62 Baptism in fact tends per se toward the full development of life in Christ, through the integral profession of faith, the Eucharist, and full communion in the Church
While you may post this in the positive sense, if you have been following a recent thread, you can see how this is so defined so strictly by an zealous RC like yourself so as to effectively negate most any baptized Protestant as having the Holy Spirit now and eternal life, unless they convert to Rome and reject Protestant doctrines.
And in reality, there is much disagreement in Rome on what the magisterium really means by such statements.
I’ll rely on the scriptures that were translated from the original languages. It’s the polluted RCC stuff that we need to stay away from.
we've had to back off a little lately, too many protestants were being injured and insuted by our actions and taunts....pathetic
ELSIE!!!!!!!is that you with the mitre?????I had no idea !!!
whatever???? Like perhaps an unsoiled vessel, like perhaps a sinless virgin.???? After all, He created 1 other....remember Eve???
The answer to "how" is just as easily as He used soiled yet holy souls to bring forth His wholly inspired word to men. For as it says, "with God all things are possible."
And your tradition-based Orthodox brethren disagree with your on the IM (among other things.
So, you checked with all the billions and billions and billions of people in the world, and (on your own and by your own infallible judgment and perfect understanding and interpretation of Sacred Scripture) determined who among those billions and billions and billions of people had honestly and completely compared the teachings of the RCC with Scripture, then you interviewed all of those people, and found out that they all understand that the RCC is often in contradiction to Scripture?
I don't mean to sound insulting, CynicalBear, but your claim sounds very similar to the types of claims that B-O and his supporters often make in a roundabout way, such as "Most Americans want to do away with the 2nd Amendment", or "Most Americans want to do away with the 1st Amendment", etc., without any real corroborating evidence other than B-O's glib assertions.
Forgive me if I am just a tad skeptical!
Might there not be at least one or two Scripture scholars in that large group of people who disagree with your assertion?
I'll try to check back tomorrow to see your possible reply.
recheck your facts...the protestants killed more "witches" in Europe and the U.S. than the inquisition ever thought of!!!! Nice bunch you have there
so you deny free will???? you're into predestination???pathetic!!!
Ex Cathedra means that it is the Holy Spirit is speaking through the chair (office) of St. Peter which the same authority and author as Scripture. It is very rarely exercised.
Peace be with you
after He was born, god allowed us to KILL Him, but before He was born, He had all the protection that the almighty could provide....
Thank you for sharing your insights!
your understanding of the Catholic church is woefully inadequate. The Catholic church only states that the Holy Spirit works through the church....has done so for 2013 years so far!!!!
I don't feel like looking it up for you but it goes something like "TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND EAT IT, tHIS IS MY BODY"....TAKE AND DRINK FROM THIS CHALICE IT IS MY BLOOD WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR THE REMISSION OF SIN" that pretty much wraps it up for me...He has the power to do it and......He did!!
Everything in this universe was willed into existance by the mind of God. That includes Mary. Mary's perfection was best addressed by the venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen:
"When Whistler painted the picture of his mother, did he not have the image of her in his mind before he ever gathered his colors on his palette? If you could have preexisted your mother (not artistically, but really), would you not have made her the most perfect woman that ever lived—one so beautiful she would have been the sweet envy of all women, and one so gentle and so merciful that all other mothers would have sought to imitate her virtues? Why, then, should we think that God would do otherwise? When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could—and that would make her a perfect Mother."
Peace be with you
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