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On 27 August 1590 Sixtus V died. After his death, many alleged that the text of the Sixtine Vulgate was "too error-ridden for general use".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reformationofbib0000peli|url-access=registration|title=The reformation of the Bible, the Bible of the Reformation|last=Pelikan|first=Jaroslav Jan|date=1996|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|others=Dallas: Bridwell Library; Internet Archive|location=New Haven|page=[https://archive.org/details/reformationofbib0000peli/page/98 98]|chapter=Catalog of Exhibition [Item 1.14]|author-link=Jaroslav Pelikan}}</ref> On 5 September of the same year, the [[College of Cardinals]] stopped all further sales of the Sixtine Vulgate and bought and destroyed as many copies as possible{{Efn|"However, this work [the Sixtine Vulgate] was not appreciated by the Congregation of the Cardinals and a week [''sic'', 9 days] after the death of Pope Sixtus V (27 August 1590) they ordered, first, the suspension of the selling of this edition and the destruction of the printed copies shortly thereafter."{{Sfnp|Gerace|2016|p=225}}|name=|group=}} by burning them; the reason invoked for this action was printing inaccuracies in Sixtus V's edition of the Vulgate. [[Bruce M. Metzger|Metzger]] believes that the inaccuracies may have been a pretext and that the attack against this edition had been instigated by the [[Jesuits]], "whom Sixtus had offended [[Disputationes#Almost in the Index|by putting one of Bellarmine's books on the 'Index']],{{Efn|"Bellarmine's intellectual efforts gained him a more central position within the [[Roman Curia]] but he also encountered dangerous setbacks. In 1587 he became a member of the [[Congregation of the Index]] and in 1598 became one of the ''consultores'' of the [[Inquisition]]. Meanwhile, the implications of the doctrine of ''potestas indirecta'' angered Pope Sixtus V, who often opposed the Society of Jesus because he thought the Society's doctrines diminished the authority of the bishop of Rome. In 1589–90 Sixtus moved to put Volume 1 of [[Disputationes|''Controversiae'']] on the Index of Prohibited Books while Bellarmine was in France on a diplomatic mission. However, the Congregation of the Index and, later, the Society of Jesus resisted this. In 1590 Sixtus died, and with him the project of the Sistine Index also died."<ref name=Temporal>{{Cite web|url=https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/on-temporal-and-spiritual-authority|title=On Temporal and Spiritual Authority|last=Bellarmine|first=Robert|year=2012|editor-last=Tutino|editor-first=Stefania|website=Online Library of Liberty|publisher=[[Liberty Fund]]|location=Indianapolis|access-date=2019-10-01}}</ref>|name=|group=}} and took this method of revenging themselves."{{Sfnp|Metzger|1977|pp=348–349}} [[Henri Quentin|Quentin]] suggests that this decision was due to the fact that the [[heretics]] could have used against the Catholic Church the passages of the Bible which Sixtus V had either removed or modified. Bellarmine did not take part in the ban on the Sixtine Vulgate as he was in Paris when Sixtus published the Sixtine Vulgate, and only came back in Rome in November 1590.{{Sfnp|Quentin|1922|pp=190–191|loc="Chapitre septième – Les éditions Sixtine et Clémentine (1590–1592)" [Chapter seven – The Sixtine and Clementine editions (1590–1592)]}}

 

 

=== Recall of the Sixtine Vulgate ===