The First Epistle of St Paul the Apostle
to the
Corinthians
Translated out of the Latin Vulgate
at the English College of Rheims, 1582
revised by Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749–1752
What this is
Written from Ephesus to the church Paul had founded at Corinth, answering a letter of theirs and reports of trouble: factions, lawsuits between Christians, marriage, food offered to idols, disorder at the Lord’s Supper. It holds the chapter on charity and one of the earliest written accounts of the Resurrection.
Challoner’s preface
St. Paul, having planted the faithful in Corinth, where he had preached a year and a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. After being there three years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians and sent it by the same persons, Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus, who had brought their letter to him. It was written about twenty-four years after our Lord's Ascension and contains several matters appertaining to faith and morals and also to ecclesiastical discipline.
The translation
The Douay-Rheims: the Catholic English Bible, translated out of the Latin Vulgate — the New Testament at Rheims in 1582, the Old at Douay in 1609–10 — and revised by Bishop Richard Challoner between 1749 and 1752. The fuller history is on the title page of St Luke.