This first edition 1592 Clementine Latin Bible is the Roman Catholic Church's official authorized text of the Bible upon which all subsequent printed Latin Bibles were based for the following 400 years. During this time, up until 1979, Roman Catholics were not permitted to print or use for ecclesiastical matters any other Latin Bible other than the official standard text of the Clementine Latin Vulgate Bible.The Council of Trent (1545-1563), that authorised the 1592 Clementine Bible, was a reaction to the Reformers' criticism of the Church of Rome's flawed theology and carelessly printed Latin Bibles that were based on corrupted medieval Latin manuscripts. Rome charged, in reply, that it was the Protestants who were in fact guilty of undermining scripture and the authority of the Church by issuing revised critical editions of the Latin Vulgate, such as were printed by Robert Stephanus of Paris between 1527-1557.

The second edition of Stephanus' Latin Bible, like all four of his other folio Latin Bibles, is a critical edition attempting to correct and recover the fidelity of the original Latin Vulgate text. For this he was censured by the Theological Faculty of Paris and in 1550 he had to flee to Geneva, Switzerland for his life. He left Paris in the middle of the night taking with him one of his printing presses. It was while he was travelling to Geneva that he fixed for all time the modern verse numbering system in almost all Bibles printed after his 1551 Genevan Greek New Testament was published.

Ironically though, when the Roman Catholic Church went to print what became known as the Clementine Vulgate Bible in 1592 [see above] the only printed edition that came close to being a pure Jerome Vulgate text was, you guessed it, Robert Stephanus' Protestant Latin Bibles of fifty years earlier. So the condemned Protestant printer's revised Latin Vulgate Bible in fact was copied and became the official Roman Catholic Bible for the next 400 years but they never told anyone what they had done. And neither did the 1611 King James Bible translators tell anyone that they had borrowed words and phrases from the earlier 1582 Catholic Rheims New Testament when they had produced their translation of the Bible. 1 Corinthians 13, "the greatest of these is charity." The word "charity" is one of the words that comes from the Latin and is first found in the 1582 Catholic Rheims New Testament. 

And there is yet at least one more secret. In 1730, when the Catholic prelate Bishop Challoner (1691-1781) went to revise the 1582/1610 Rheims/Douay Catholic Bible he discovered that the English Catholics had, over the preceding 100 years, become so use to the King James Bible wording and phrasing he had to incorporate the familiar scripture passages into his Catholic Bible revision and he too didn't even tell anyone what he had done. So the 16th century Catholics used a Protestant Bible for their official Bible and the 17th century Protestants partially used a Catholic Bible in the their new translation and in the 18th century the Catholics once again used a Protestant Bible in their English revision of their Bible. This is history not theology!!!!!!