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Another commenter elsewhere in this thread just mentioned the Preface to the KJV, which includes some specific criticism of the Catholic Church (referred to as
by schoen 7y ago
Another commenter elsewhere in this thread just mentioned the Preface to the KJV, which includes some specific criticism of the Catholic Church (referred to as "our chief adversaries") for (at the time) disapproving of vernacular language editions of the Bible.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Preface#%C2%A710_The_unwillingness_of_our_chief_adversaries,_that_the_Scriptures_should_be_divulged_in_the_mother_tongue,_etc https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Preface#%C....
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoPretty sure the Muslims were always their chief adversaries.
- schoen 7y agoI misunderstood a detail here: this section admits that the Catholic Church sponsored an English translation (the Douay-Rheims Bible) but complains that this translation was itself made in response to pressure from Protestants, and that Catholics were expected to seek permission from church authorities in order to read it. So I probably shouldn't have said "disapproving of" but rather something like "grudgingly permitting" or "restricting access to".
- lsc 7y agoI actually had no idea that the catholic church permitted an english translation so early.