The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate was used officially in the Catholic Church until 1979, when the Nova Vulgata was promulgated by Pope John Paul II.
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17 Facts About Sixto-Clementine Vulgate
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Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is a revision of the Sixtine Vulgate; the latter had been published two years earlier under Sixtus V Nine days after the death of Sixtus V, who had issued the Sixtine Vulgate, the College of Cardinals suspended the sale of the Sixtine Vulgate and later ordered the destruction of the copies.
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In 1592, Clement VIII, arguing printing errors in the Sixtine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, recalled all copies of the Sixtine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate still in circulation; some suspect his decision was in fact due to the influence of the Jesuits.
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Therefore, Pope Gregory XIV in 1591 created a fourth commission to revise the Sixtine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, which was reorganised as the fifth and final commission later the same year.
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Supposedly, the work of revision was finished in nineteen days thanks to the guidance of the Codex Carafianus—the codex which contained the propositions made to Sixtus V by the commission presided over by Cardinal Carafa, which is a 1583 edition of the Leuven Sixto-Clementine Vulgate that had been emended by the third commission under Carafa—and the experience of four members of the commission who had previously taken part in the work to produce the Sixtine edition.
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Frederic G Kenyon writes that the Sixtine Vulgate was "full of errors" but that Clement VIII was motivated in his decision to recall the edition by the Jesuits, "whom Sixtus had offended".
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Sixto-Clementine Vulgate considered making radical changes to their constitution, but his death prevented this from being carried out.
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Appendix to the Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate contained additional apocryphal books: Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras.
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The Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate contains texts of Acts 15:34, the Johannine Comma, and 1 John 5:7.
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The new system of verse enumeration introduced by the Sixtine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate was replaced by the system of division of verses enumeration of the 1551 edition of the Bible of Robertus Stephanus.
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Text of the Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate was close to the Hentenian edition of the Bible, which is the Leuven Sixto-Clementine Vulgate; this is a difference from the Sixtine edition, which had "a text more nearly resembling that of Robertus Stephanus than that of John Hentenius".
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The Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate used the verse enumeration system of Stephanus and the Leuven Sixto-Clementine Vulgate.
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Full name of the Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate was Biblia sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Sixti Quinti Pont.
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Research later made after the printing of the Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate "has shown that the Clementine edition departs at many points from Jerome's text [the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate]".
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Differences between the Sixtine and Clementine editions of the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate have been criticised by Protestants; Thomas James in his Bellum Papale sive Concordia discors "upbraids the two Popes on their high pretensions and the palpable failure of at least one, possibly both of them".
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Sixto-Clementine Vulgate gave a long list of about 2,000 differences between these two editions.
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Clementine Sixto-Clementine Vulgate remained the standard Bible of the Roman Catholic Church until 1979, when the Nova Vulgata was promulgated by Pope John Paul II.
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