The Council of Trent made the Vulgate the official text of the Catholic Church, and our present edition was brought out by Clement VIII in 1592. 4. The Rheims-Douay Bible. The most widely used ...

The New Testament like the Old Testament has also a threefold division: 1) Historical books (the Gospels and the Acts); 2) Didactic writings (the fourteen Pauline Epistles and the seven Catholic ...