Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is my colleague, Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor here at the Augustine Institute, and we're going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. And we're going to pick up with Matthew Chapter 12. So if you have your Bibles, open up the Matthew Chapter 12, and you can join us. And I'm happy to share with you the good news. We have been using the ESVCE,

which means the English standard version Catholic edition that was just approved by the Vatican about a year ago.

And a lot of us, myself personally, I believe that this is one of the most accurate translations of the Bible into English.

And it's readable English, and yet it really

seeks to be deeply faithful to the Hebrew and Greek. So it tries to follow the word order as much

as possible and accuracy to that word. And so if you don't know Hebrew and Greek, and even if you do,

this is the English version you want to get. I mean, I really appreciate it. And I know for Dr. Barbara and I, studying Hebrew and Greek in the biblical languages, we get a sense of different translations. And, you know, this is just such a terrific translation. I really feel. And I've been saying this before the Augustine's Duke got the rights to it, that this is the...

I can vouch for that. I can vouch for that.

As long as I've known you, you've always said the ESV was the best translation.

And we taught a course on Paul together.

And you really see the ESV shine in Paul because there are certain metaphors in Paul that don't get translated literally in other versions.

So for example, the idea of walking in Christ. That's a very Jewish expression.

Yes. But in other translations, they usually translate something like living in Christ,

which is like, okay, that's the basic idea. But the whole metaphor of walking is very important related to Psalm 1 and

other passages. So when we taught Paul, this guy's over there going, well, you know, the ESV is

really the best one. And okay, well, there's no Catholic edition of the ESV until now.

Until now, now we have it. And it's been approved by the Vatican. So we're so excited at the Augustine's to be able to provide this, because our passion is getting the Word of God out, helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith is our mission. And so one of the great ways we can do that now is to publish a Bible. And so we just came out with a new set of the English Standard Version Catholic Edition Bibles,

and we're so excited about it.

And what we did is we got Dr. Barber and Dr. Gishechek and Dr. Akers and many of our faculty

who love Scripture in the Word of God and said, okay, we love the Bible.

How should we publish this?

What kind of Bible should we produce?

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