POPE SIXTUS OR THE FAKE BIBLE:

 

 

In the history of the church, it has often been like that, that only the cardinal, who had the shortest lifetime, was elected for being the pope. (That to avoid changes and the lose of power in the church.)

 

Here, there is a biography of the pope, who changed the bible.

 

Cardinal Montalto played a perfect act:

In the year 1572 the Franciscan cardinal retired of his public duties. He acted as lf he was half dead and therefore wanted to prepare himself for his dead. lf the Holy Committee meet, he had to attend it too. There, he played his act further on:

He coughed permanently and made himself years older, when they talked about "death". In the year 1585 Pope Gregor died.

Montalto came hollow‑checked, with bad eyes and with wrinkles to the pope‑election. He walked as slow as a snail and he spoke so quiet, that you hardly could not hear him. He walked on crutches and in such a bad posture, that his head nearly touched the ground. Naturally he was the kind of pope, the cardinals, with the right to vote, wanted to have.

So what should he do?

But in the minute, Montalto was elected pope, he threw away his crutches and screamed: "Now 1 am Caesar!". After that he, with his thunder‑voice, started to intoned the "Te Deum". This was reported by his biographer Leti. He was now Pope and Montalto turned into Pope Sixtus.

 

The pope made great things:

He built the cupola on the peters‑cathedral.

He moved, centimetre by centimetre, the obelisk up to his present position on the Peters place. He built the library of the Vatican.

He built a aqueduct, which went over mountains and valleys, to get water over the distance of 20 miles to Rome.

And he changed the bible.

 

The Vulgata, the Latin bible translation was made by the holy Hironymus in the 4th century. Hyronymus changed the scriptures at 3500 places. The Vulgata was challenged over several centuries. In the middle age it became an Institution. But different kind of readings appeared through the centuries, because the bible‑copyist did not copy exactly. With the art of printing, not only the bible‑editions increased, but also the mistakes found in them. The Protestants had their own translation since the reformation. The Catholics needed urgently a text for their religious disputes. On the conceal of Trient 1546, the Vulgata was decelerated as an authentic bible‑edition. But then a new Vulgata was ordered to write by the heads of the conceal. In the end of 15 88 the learned men , which were ordered by Sixtus, showed him their final edition.

But for Sixtus, there was to much erudition in it and there were to many variations added. He shouted the ordered men, that he could make the job much better. In a papal, he explained in a sentence, which had 300 words, that he, as the pope, was the only person, who could decide the question of a true bible for the church.

He worked day and night, because he did not slept in the night. he had only one official secretary, who nearly was sent into grave by him.

Concerning the translation of the bible, Sixtus was often spontaneous and unscientific. He often translated as he liked and fit in everywhere, where he thought it was necessary. He also took out whole verses.

 

In the year 1590 the first examples appeared. In the beginning, Sixtus was euphoric, but then he saw the many print‑mistakes, which the printers made, because they had to work as quick as Sixtus. But the pope knew how to solve this problem too. He began to correct the mistakes himself. He wrote the correction on little paper pieces and stuck those pieces on the mistakes. But by this he ruined more than he saved.

Through the papal Aetermus Ille, the Pope ordered that this bible is true and authentic. In the middle of the month April the cardinals and nuncios got examples too. They examined it and tore up their eyes.

On the 27th August 1590 Sixtus died. After 12 days his follower died too. Pope Gregor (1590­159 1) came after him and he had a problem:

The bible had mistakes, which could be found by a blind man too. But the church was forced to accept the same bible. It was forced by a pope, who not only sent the bible but the excommunication too.

Gregor was in a dilemma.

The Protestants laughed about this funny situation, while the learned men were excited. The pope solved the problem like this: He lied!

Re‑corrected the mistakes and wrote into the foreword, that after Sixtus had seen the mistakes, he wanted to work on the bible one more time. But he died, before he could end his work. Naturally, his follower could not wait to finish the work. That was the reason, while there are now two editions of the bible. One uncorrected and one corrected edition. The bible was finished in the year 1592 and the next Pope (Pope Clemens VIII) had no problem, that the bible appeared under the name of Sixtus.

By the way, one edition of the first Sixtus‑bible made its way into the Bodleian Library in Oxford, where it was treated like gold.