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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  The 
  Douay 
  Version 
  of 
  the 
  Bible. 
  The 
  Douay 
  version 
  was 
  under- 
  

   taken 
  in 
  1568 
  by 
  the 
  British 
  Roman 
  Catholic 
  refugees 
  at 
  Douay, 
  

   Flanders, 
  where 
  a 
  British 
  Catholic 
  college 
  was 
  established 
  under 
  

   the 
  direction 
  of 
  William 
  Allen 
  and 
  Gregory 
  Martin. 
  In 
  1578 
  the 
  

   college, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  political 
  conditions, 
  was 
  moved 
  to 
  Rheims, 
  

   France, 
  where 
  the 
  first 
  edition 
  of 
  the 
  translation 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Testa- 
  

   ment 
  was 
  issued 
  in 
  1582. 
  In 
  1593 
  the 
  college 
  was 
  reestablished 
  at 
  

   Douay, 
  and 
  here 
  the 
  translation 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  Testament 
  was 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  1609-10. 
  The 
  Douay 
  version 
  is 
  a 
  close 
  translation 
  from 
  

   the 
  Latin 
  Vulgate. 
  It 
  exercised 
  some 
  influence 
  on 
  the 
  King 
  James 
  

   version 
  of 
  1611, 
  and 
  was 
  in 
  turn, 
  in 
  its 
  later 
  revised 
  editions, 
  in- 
  

   fluenced 
  by 
  it. 
  

  

  King 
  James 
  or 
  Authorized 
  Version. 
  Folio 
  edition, 
  printed 
  at 
  

   London 
  by 
  Robert 
  Barker, 
  1613. 
  The 
  preparation 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  English 
  

   Bible 
  was 
  decided 
  upon 
  at 
  a 
  conference 
  held 
  at 
  Hampton 
  Court, 
  

   January 
  16 
  and 
  18, 
  1604. 
  In 
  that 
  year 
  King 
  James 
  I 
  issued 
  a 
  com- 
  

   mission 
  to 
  fifty-four 
  eminent 
  divines 
  to 
  undertake 
  the 
  work. 
  It 
  was 
  

   not 
  begun, 
  however, 
  until 
  1607, 
  when 
  seven 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  number 
  

   had 
  died. 
  The 
  forty-seven 
  survivors 
  were 
  divided 
  into 
  six 
  com- 
  

   mittees, 
  two 
  sitting 
  at 
  Oxford, 
  two 
  at 
  Cambridge, 
  and 
  two 
  at 
  West- 
  

   minster. 
  In 
  1610 
  their 
  work 
  was 
  completed 
  and 
  then 
  revised 
  by 
  a 
  

   committee 
  of 
  six. 
  Although 
  universally 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  authorized 
  

   version, 
  no 
  record, 
  either 
  ecclesiastical 
  or 
  civil, 
  has 
  ever 
  been 
  found 
  

   of 
  such 
  authorization. 
  The 
  first 
  edition 
  was 
  printed 
  by 
  Robert 
  

   Barker 
  in 
  1611. 
  

  

  Revised 
  Version. 
  Revision 
  of 
  the 
  text 
  of 
  1611 
  was 
  early 
  advo- 
  

   cated 
  by 
  men 
  like 
  Bishop 
  Ellicott, 
  Archbishop 
  French, 
  and 
  Dean 
  

   Alford. 
  Efforts 
  were 
  also 
  made 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  House 
  of 
  

   Commons 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  Royal 
  Commission 
  appointed. 
  In 
  1870 
  the 
  upper 
  

   house 
  of 
  the 
  Canterbury 
  Convocation, 
  on 
  the 
  motion 
  of 
  Bishop 
  Wil- 
  

   berforce, 
  took 
  the 
  subject 
  in 
  hand 
  and 
  instituted 
  the 
  proceedings 
  

   which 
  finally 
  secured 
  the 
  accomplishment 
  of 
  the 
  work. 
  In 
  1871 
  an 
  

   American 
  committee 
  of 
  cooperation 
  was 
  organized. 
  The 
  New 
  Testa- 
  

   ment 
  was 
  completed 
  in 
  1881 
  and 
  the 
  Old 
  Testament 
  in 
  1885. 
  

  

  Parallel 
  New 
  Testament. 
  Revised 
  version 
  and 
  authorized 
  version. 
  

   (Seaside 
  Library.) 
  The 
  revised 
  version 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Testament 
  ap- 
  

   peared 
  in 
  England 
  May 
  17, 
  1881, 
  and 
  in 
  America 
  May 
  20, 
  1881. 
  The 
  

   first 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  parallel 
  Testament 
  appeared 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  May 
  21, 
  

   and 
  the 
  second 
  half 
  May 
  23. 
  

  

  The 
  American 
  Standard 
  Version. 
  Edited 
  by 
  the 
  American 
  Re- 
  

   vision 
  Committee, 
  A. 
  D. 
  1901. 
  The 
  American 
  Committee 
  of 
  Re- 
  

   visers, 
  cooperating 
  with 
  the 
  British 
  Committee, 
  was 
  organized 
  in 
  

   1871. 
  It 
  consisted 
  of 
  thirty 
  members, 
  divided 
  into 
  Old 
  and 
  New 
  

   Testament 
  groups, 
  with 
  Professor 
  William 
  Henry 
  Green, 
  of 
  Prince- 
  

  

  