...array, as it were, conspiring for this object, to translate the books of the Divine Scriptures into all vulgar tongues; to issue immense numbers of copies...every individual to peruse them without any guide." The pope proceeds to defend the denial of the Scriptures to the public at large on various grounds...

...Bible Societies. These societies, first instituted in England, and since extended far and wide, \ve now behold in one united phalanx, conspiring for this...individual to peruse them without any guide. Consequently, • " ' This Encyclical Letter was published on the 25th May, 1844, in the Diario di Roma, (the official...

...this object, to translate the books of the Divine Scriptures into all the vulgar tongues, — to iwne immense numbers of copies, — to disseminate them...guide. Consequently, as Jerome lamented in his time (Epist. to Paulinus, sec. 7, which is Epist. liii. tome L, works of St. Jerome, Edit, of Vallaraius),...

...Amongst the principal machinations by which in this our age, the non-Catholics of various names endeavor to ensnare the adherents of Catholic truth, and to...every individual to peruse them without any guide. Nothing is more likely to happen, than that in versions of them multiplied by the Bible Societies,...

...publish an immense number of copies of the divine Scriptures, translated into the vulgar languages, and to disseminate them indiscriminately among Christians and infidels, and to entice every one to read them without any guide. Thus, as Jerome in his day complained, the loquacious old woman,...