Is the Vulgate (official Bible of the Church) based on the Masoretic Text?
The Vulgate is approved via decree of the council of Trent. “Moreover, the same sacred and holy Synod,considering that no small utility may accrue to the Church of God, if it be made known which out of all the Latin editions, now in circulation, of the sacred books, is to be held as authentic,ordains and declares, that the said old and vulgate edition, which, by the lengthened usage of so many years, has been approved of in the Church, be, in public lectures, disputations, sermons and expositions, held as authentic; and that no one is to dare, or presume to reject it under any pretext whatever.
