of the Jansenist movement. The propositions were said to be “false, captious, badly worded, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, … blasphemous, … and close to heresy … (§101).1 Among the propositions were several that dealt with the Bible, and from them one gains an impression of how the Bible was regarded then in Catholic life. Toward the end of the seventeenth century, Quesnel had published a book entitled Le Nouveau Testament en français avec des réflexions morales sur chaque verset (1693). When