Ronald Knox was requested to make tis translation of Scripture by Cardinal insley and th English Hierarchy. He left Oxford in 1939 to devote himself to the task, and parts of the translation appeared week by week in the London Tablet. Know follows the Vulgate; where the meaning of the Vulgate is ambiguous he consults the Greek text; where the Vulgate reading differs from the Greek, the meaning of the Greek is given in a footnote.