James A. M Namara. Controversial Rhemish Bible. Ireland, Cork City, 1818. The New Testament, Translated From The Latin Uulgate, First Published At The English College, At Rheims, A. D. 1582

4vo, 1947 grams. The new testament, translated from the latin uulgate, first published at the english college, at rheims, a. D. 1582, explained and illustrated with valuable and copious notes. To which are added, useful tables of the weights, measures and coins mentioned in scripture, with an evangelical history and a controversial index. Also, the errata of the protestant, or sectarian bible, with explanations and references, together with the principles of roman catholics, and vindication, shewing their abhorrence of certain tenets commonly alleged against them an epitome of ecclesiastical history,. By james a. M’namara. Rhemish notes.
Banned by the bishops, weaponized in parliament: the ultra-rare 1818 cork catholic bible with the scandalous rhemish notes – flawless full edition. 1818 cork rhemish new testament: the notorious m'namara edition with the controversial 'execute heretics' footnotes – 100% complete variant.
Matthew chapter 13 (verse 29): the commentary explicitly argues that the catholic church has the authority to punish, execute, or "execute punishment upon" heretics (protestants), only advising against it if it risks harming faithful catholics in the process. Acts chapter 25 (verse 11): the footnote asserts that heretics are subject to secular execution and that civil rulers have a duty to put religious dissenters to death. Revelation chapter 17 (verse 6): the note refers directly to the "babylonian" system and explicitly calls the execution of protestants by the historical church "just execution," stating that their blood is not the blood of saints but the blood of thieves and heretics. 2. The back appendices (separate section pages)as advertised right on your title page, mcnamara appended thomas ward’s highly controversial "errata of the protestant bible.
Offered here is an exceptionally rare, textually flawless copy of the most politically explosive scriptural publication in irish history: james a. M’namara’s infamous 1818 cork edition of the rhemish new testament. Intended as a fierce catholic counter-attack against protestant bible societies, m’namara reprinted the brutal, uncompromising 1582 "rhemish notes" directly in the margins.
The result was an immediate, nationwide scandal that rocked the british empire.

The ultimate value of this volume lies in its un-censored margins. At the bottom of chapter 13 of the gospel of matthew, the commentary explicitly declares to the reader that protestants and other heretics "may and ought by public authority either spiritual or temporal to be chastised or executed. "
When british politicians discovered that an irish publisher was distributing these medieval mandates across munster under the apparent patronage of the catholic clergy, it triggered a massive crisis in the british parliament. Anti-catholic forces used this exact book to argue that irish catholics were fundamentally unsafe to emancipate. The public fallout was so severe that archbishop troy of dublin was forced to publicly condemn the notes, strip the book of its episcopal endorsement, and frantically distance the church from m’namara’s text. Many copies were subsequently destroyed or altered, making intact survivors extraordinarily scarce.
This is a museum-grade historical artifact. There are currently zero copies of this 1818 edition for sale anywhere on the global market, with known examples locked away in institutional strongrooms like trinity college dublin and the national library of ireland. For a collector of irish history, political warfare, or rare biblical polemics, this textually perfect copy represents the ultimate centerpiece acquisition.
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Condition, good, wear to cover, slight tears to 2 blanks, notations and underlining in places, which is neat, majority of pages are very good and better. View images.
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