Douay Bible
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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
In England, too, church questions temporarily rose uppermost during debates in Parliament over the proposed government assistance to schools in which the Douay Bible, or Roman Catholic version of the Scriptures, was used.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
The Douay Bible was first translated and published complete in 1609, almost simultaneously with the Bible of King James.
From The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. by Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose)
The Catholic version, known as the Douay Bible, appeared in 1610.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
