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Douay Bible

[doo-ay] / ˈdu eɪ /


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To the ring of fanfares he arose, removed his black topcoat, stepped forward with Chief Justice Earl Warren and, over a closed, family Douay Bible, repeated his oath in a clear, crisp voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Catholic version, known as the Douay Bible, appeared in 1610.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta

All citations from the Holy Bible, and references thereto, made in the translations for this work, are taken from the standard editions of the English Douay Bible.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

In 1609 the first volume of the Old Testament, and in the following year the second volume, were published at Douay, hence ever since known as the Douay Bible.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various


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