Commentary on the Catholic Douay-Rheims New Testament Exegeted from the Original Greek and Latin - All 4 Volumes

This set brings you all four volumes of the Commentary on the Catholic Douay-Rheims New Testament as PDF downloads, covering the New Testament from the Gospels through the Apocalypse. Each volume runs about 700 pages on a 6 by 9 inch frame.

When a passage seems to say one thing in English and another in the Greek, which do you trust? This Commentary was made to put the original text back in your hands. For the first time in Catholic history, the New Testament is conservatively exegeted from the original Greek, with close attention to grammar and etymology, occasional analysis of the Vulgate's Latin, and a reading of the English used in the Douay-Rheims alongside many other translations for comparison.

Every verse is interpreted from the grammar and context of the passage. Robert Sungenis follows the grammatical-historical method, turning to typology and symbolism where the text calls for it, especially in the prophetic passages. Where the Greek textual tradition affects the meaning of a verse, the textual-critical data is weighed in the open. Key magisterial documents are cited when they bear on the text, together with the Fathers and medievals, catechisms, encyclopedias, and other dogmatic sources. Each verse carries numerous cross-references to related Scripture, giving this Commentary more cross-references than any Catholic Bible in history.

Its foundation is the traditional Catholic conviction that all Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit and completely inerrant, in its history no less than in its soteriology. Woven through the text are roughly one thousand of the great biblical paintings, drawn from the Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and other movements, many reproduced at full length, so the eye is drawn deeper into what the words proclaim. Each volume runs about 700 pages on a 6 by 9 inch hardback frame, made to be used for a lifetime and handed on.

With one of the most trusted traditional English translations of the Bible, the 1609 Douay-Rheims and its 1899 American edition, set beside this new Commentary, you have a rare chance to get behind St. Jerome's fourth-century Latin rendering of the Greek texts he used for the 27 books of the New Testament. Many unclear things are made clear, and many clear things are enhanced. Scripture comes alive as you see how the people of the first century spoke and acted in ways much like our own, and the lives and sayings of Jesus, Peter, Paul, and the rest are seen in a new light through the nuances of the Greek. Readers tell us that once they begin, they cannot put it down.

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