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To: metmom
We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.

Lest the oft told untruth that the CHURCH was merely trying to keep BAD translations out of the hands of people:

... but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.

1,088 posted on 09/19/2014 9:45:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

You noticed that, too, eh?


1,092 posted on 09/19/2014 9:51:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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