Everyone has a favorite Bible translation (well, you do, don’t you?), and mine is the Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ editionis, Sixti V Pontificis Maximi jussu recognita et edita, more commonly known as the Clementine Vulgate.
I have a copy of the Clementine Vulgate: a hundred-year-old edition procured via eBay. I always wondered when someone would get around to putting the Clementine text online. Today, I stopped wondering.
Mirabile dictu, I have found The Clementine Vulgate project, the complete text of the best Latin Bible translation ever. Thank you to Michael Tweedale of London for a tremendous service.
Not so complete. It lacks the appendix that contained the apocrypha: the Prayer of Manasses and 3 and 4 Esdras.
I love 4 Esdras. How can one survive without knowing that the angel Uriel came and to explain to Ezra why God lets bad things happen. One of the best angelic proclamations ever. Right after the best one which began, “Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you..”