1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Peter 1:16

*For we have not by following artificial fables, made known to you the power, and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty.

1 Corinthians 1:17.

We have not by following artificial fables. Literally, learned fables,{ Ver. 16. Non doctas fabulas, ou sesopismenois muthois. Some copies had indoctas, on which account the Rheims Testament issued before the corrections of Pope Sixtus V and Pope Clemens VIII has unlearned.|} invented to promote our doctrine. We, I with others, were eye-witnesses of his glory on Mount Thabor. [Matthew 17:2.] (Witham)