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The Puritan's Geneva Bible

• Thread starter C. Matthew McMahon
• Start date Oct iii, 2011

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• #ane

I came across this quippet today:

The 1560-1599 GENEVA BIBLE is the Bible with marginal notes heavily influenced by John Calvin, John Knox, Miles Coverdale, and many other leaders of the Reformation. 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 piece of work on revival and the interpretation of prophecy, The Puritan Hope, notes on page 7, "... the ii groups in England and Scotland developed along parallel lines, like two streams originating at one fountain. The foun­tain was non then much Geneva, as the Bible which the exiles newly translated and issued with many marginal notes... it was read in every Presbyterian and Puritan domicile in both realms."

[I dear that - it was the Bible of the Puritans, and the notes themsevles are a wealth of knoweldge.]

This time as well saw the rise of the forces for covenanted Reformation against the corruptions and abuses of prelacy and the imperial factions. Darkness was dispelled equally people read this Bible and saw for themselves that in that location is no authorization to a higher place the Holy Scriptures. Discerning this truth, it became credible that the civil tyran­ny and the heretical superstitions imposed by Pope, Male monarch or Bishops were to be resisted, unto death if necessary (i.due east. considering these innovations in church and state were opposed to the Kingship of Christ and the law of His kingdom, as set along in Holy Scripture).

Furthermore, this is the Bible that led to the Male monarch James edition. James did not want the Calvinistic marginal notes of the Geneva Bible getting in to the hands of the people, because he considered them "seditious", hence, he authorized the King James Version as a substitute.

Although almost people today take never heard of the Geneva Bible, information technology was so pop from 1560 to 1644 (up until the time of the Westminster Assembly's meetings) that information technology went through 140+ printings in that period alone.

[Tin can you imagine that many mitt-created editions on a ancient printing press?]

The reason for its popularity, among the faithful, was obvious: the marginal notes promoted a full-orbed, nation changing Calvinism! Taking a modern work, such equally 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 beingness promoted today!

[Personally, my favorite deovtional reading is from the Geneva Bible.]

• #2

I wish the updated Geneva was nonetheless available.

• #4

I was looking for the leather. I emailed them a few months dorsum and they didn't take plains at that time to produce more genuine leather editions.

• #5

I wish the updated Geneva was still available.

It is, the Reformation Bible in ESV.

• #6

Ah, yes. I know what y'all mean.

Interestingly enough, my wife loves her hardback edition better.

• #9

I was one of the few to buy ane when it came out at the kickoff and preordered leather ones. I was 18 when I did. One of the smartest investments of my life. I didn't use information technology at the fourth dimension, but I appreciate it now.

MW

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• #11

Interesting. Then while King James may accept had bias against the Geneva for its notes which were (every bit noted in the link) actually no different in the areas he found offensive to his prerogatives than the Bishops Bible, the AV was substantially the thought of the Puritan John Rainolds, and for the express desire of a more accurate translation of the Greek and Hebrew into the English language.

In this wide sense information technology was the Bible of the Puritans' opponents also. Come across, for example, Christopher Anderson'southward Register of the English Bible, vol. 2, p. 338, available hither:

• #12

Of class the Long Parliament that deputed the Westminster Assembly also commissioned the creation of an updated set of Puritan notes to essentially supercede those of the Geneva Bible. They were intended to accompany the so relatively new AV, and eventually took form in what we at present call the Westminster Annotations. Due to the extensiveness of the notes, notwithstanding, they were never actually bound with any Bible (that I know of). Instead they were released in two big, split up volumes. About half of the authors were members of the Assembly (Featley, Gough, Gataker, Ley, Taylor, et al), though they borrowed extensively from the Dutch Annotations, which had been commissioned past the Synod of Dort.

MW

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• #13

Interesting. So while King James may have had bias against the Geneva for its notes which were (as noted in the link) really no dissimilar in the areas he found offensive to his prerogatives than the Bishops Bible, the AV was essentially the idea of the Puritan John Rainolds, and for the limited want of a more accurate translation of the Greek and Hebrew into the English language.

Yes. It'southward also interesting to notation that sermons being preached earlier Rex James after 1611 are regularly making employ of the Geneva version. The idea of a "version contend" doesn't fit in with the historical details.

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