Many Jewish and pagan converts obtained their first knowledge of the Bible ... The Rheims-Douay Bible. The most widely used English Catholic translation (from the Latin Vulgate) of the Bible ...
His story is typical of church politics where he rose and fell from grace a number of times; but his influence in the structure of the Bible remained. Four hundred years later, it is England's William ...
First if the Church truly wanted to destroy ... John Wycliffe, a dissentient priest, translated the Bible into English. Unfortunately his secretary, John Purvey, included a heretical prologue ...
On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. On every Lord's Day, ...