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THE ENGLISH HEXAPLA EXHIBITING
THE SIX IMPORTANT ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, WICLIF,
TYNDALE, CRANMER, GENEVAN, ANGLO-RHEMISH, AUTHORIZED OR KING JAMES VERSION (1841)
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"I will punish them that serve me otherwise than I have
commanded, not sparing the chief that the people may fear and praise my
judgements." (Note from the Geneva Bible on Lev. 10:3, after
"fire went out from the Lord" and killed Nadab and Abihu for
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BROWN, JOHN (of Haddington)
The Self-Interpreting Bible:
With Commentaries, References, Harmony of the Gospels and Many Other Helps
Needed to Understand and Teach the Text (4 volumes, 1914
edition)
Brown's
renown rests chiefly on The Self-Interpreting Bible
... and to a
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reprinted
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the 21st century!--RB). Its numerous aids... included a system of marginal
cross-references novel in its extensiveness. This
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'Antichrist' surveys papal history... (the complete work--RB) is exemplary in
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and in referring particularly to the New Testament, he adds that 'there the
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The Geneva
Bible is the Puritan Bible with Reformation promoting marginal notes authored
by prominent leaders of the Reformation (during the time of John Calvin and
John Knox). The New
Testament was translated out of the Greek by Theodore Beza. The Geneva Bible was the predominant English translation
during the period in which the English and Scottish Reformations gained great
impetus.
Iain Murray, in his classic work on revival and the interpretation of prophecy,
The Puritan Hope
(http://www.swrb.com/catalog/M.htm), notes,
...the two groups in England and Scotland developed along
parallel lines, like two streams originating at one fountain. The fountain was
not so much Geneva, as the Bible which the exiles newly translated and issued
with many marginal notes... it was
read in every Presbyterian and Puritan home in both realms (p. 7).
This time also
saw the rise of the forces for covenanted Reformation against the corruption
and abuses of prelacy and the royal factions. Darkness was dispelled as people
read this Bible and saw for themselves that there is no authority above the
Holy Scriptures. Discerning this truth, it became
apparent that the civil tyranny and the heretical superstitions imposed by
Pope, King and Bishops were to be resisted unto death, if necessary (i.e.
because these innovations in church and state were opposed to the Kingship of
Christ and the law of His kingdom, as set forth in Holy Scripture).
Moreover, this is
the Bible that led to the King James edition. James
(a flaming homosexual, megalomaniac, and tyrant) did not want the Calvinistic
marginal notes of the Geneva Bible getting into the hands of the people because
he considered them "seditious;" hence, he authorized the King James
Version as a substitute (though the KJV far surpasses modern translations).
Although most
people today have never heard of the Geneva Bible, it
was so popular from 1560 to 1644 that it went through 140+ printings.
The reason for its popularity among the faithful is obvious: the marginal notes
promoted a full-orbed, nation-changing Protestantism! Taking
a modern work, such as the Scofield Reference Bible, and comparing the notes to
those of the Geneva Bible, it will readily be seen that the religion of the
Protestant Reformation bears no resemblance to much of the nonsense being
prattled today!
Additionally,
the later editions of the Geneva Bible (like this 1599 edition) are more
strongly Calvinistic and anti-Papal. Eason notes in The Genevan Bible, Notes on
its Production and Distribution (see below),
The notes of
Tomson's New Testament of 1576, which took the place of the New Testament of
the Bible of 1560 in many editions from 1587 onward, are entirely different
from those in the Geneva Bible. They are taken from
Beza's Latin Testament, and are controversial and strongly Calvinistic.
Furthermore,
Eason cites Pocock (a rabid anti-Calvinist) in the same book,
The
changes adopted in the Geneva Bible and New Testament synchronise with the
gradual spread of the Calvinistic heresy and the contemporaneous development of
hatred of the whole Papal system of doctrine. The notes attacked the
Sacramental teaching of the Church, substituting for it the Calvinistic
doctrines of election and reprobation. They taught that Sacraments are nothing
more than signs and seals of grace previously given to the elect. All passages
about the Sacraments are explained away. (We cite this quote, though it is full of a good deal of
devilish nonsense, to demonstrate that even the enemies of biblical truth
recognized the powerful impact that the Geneva Bible was having in furthering
the Protestant Reformation, as well as to show that the notes in the later
versions of the Geneva Bible were moving in the direction of a more distinct
testimony against error and for the truth--RB).
"There
were three primary editions of the Geneva Bible:
(1) The editions that
follow the first edition of 1560.
(2) The editions in which
Tomson's New Testament of 1576 is substituted for the 1560 New Testament.
(3) The Bibles from 1598
that contain the Notes on Revelation of Francis Junius." (The Genevan
Bible, Notes on its Production and Distribution).
In
our opinion, the notes in the 1599 edition were the most faithful to Scripture.
FEATURES (Tolle Lege 1599 Geneva Bible):
* Word-for-word accuracy with the 1599 Geneva
Bible
* Original cross references
* Modern spelling
* Original study notes by Reformers
* Old English Glossary
* 2-page Family Tree Chart
* Presentation Page with several family registry
pages
* Easy-to-read print
* Size: 8.75" x 11.5"
* Approx: 1,400 pages
Download the
Book of Romans PDF by clicking here.
The
facsimile edition of the 1599 edition of the Geneva Bible, which is much larger
and much harder to read then the new Tolle Lege edition (because of the old
type style in the facsimile, and the notes which are very small and
particularly hard to read at times) can still be purchased from SWRB at the
price listed below. But we would strongly suggest that you get the Tolle Lege Press
retype set edition instead, if you are concerned about ease-of-use and
readability. Furthermore, prices for the Tolle Lege editions start out at a
lower level than the facsimile edition.
For the Tolle
Lege Press retype set edition of the printed 1599 Geneva Bible please click here to visit their site.
For a fully searchable PDF edition of the
printed 1599 Geneva Bible on SWRB's Calvinism
Bookshelf CD #1 please click here.
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