NaasPreacher (C4K)
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The most recent translation in use was the Geneva Bible. Another translation in common use was the Bishops Bible.
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KJV only??
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The most recent translation in use was the Geneva Bible. Another translation in common use was the Bishops Bible.
Before those were the Wycliffe and Tyndale bibles. Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating and distributing his English bible.
Wycliffe died a natural death but the Catholic church dug up his bones many years later and burned them as a heretic.
History of the English bible is fascinating. You can see God's hand in all of it.
NaasPreacher (C4K)
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Yeah, thanks for that - I mentioned in a previous post that there was already 400 years of English Bible history. There were several other translations as well.
The first King James Version was chained to every Anglican lecturn and in certain libraries. It was exposed to all residents of England such as no copy of scripture ever was exposed to the citizens.
The Geneva was a very acceptable version to many evangelicals, but it was not readily distributed to the public.
Even to-day, I see more KJV's sitting on people's sideboards than any other version. They may never open them, but they sit there.
The KJV, whatever issue, has been a great Bible missionary down through the centuries.
Cheers,
Jim
The Geneva was a very acceptable version to many evangelicals, but it was not readily distributed to the public.
Even to-day, I see more KJV's sitting on people's sideboards than any other version. They may never open them, but they sit there.
The KJV, whatever issue, has been a great Bible missionary down through the centuries.
Cheers,
Jim
Don't you know by now that Paul used the KJV and Jerome translated it into the sacred language of Latin! :smilewinkgrin:
NaasPreacher (C4K)
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There was a versions battle in Ireland between the newfangled Vulgate and the Old Latin translation.
NaasPreacher (C4K)
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The Vulgate win out, despite the best efforts of the Old Latin Onlyists.
The Geneva version was the most popular at the time when the KJV was introduced (and for more than a century more popular than the KJV).However,the completed Geneva translation came out in 1560. The Bishop's Bible came out in 1568. The Douay/Rheims came out in 1609 just before the KJV was released.
Make that 1000 years of English translations before 1611.
The Lindisfarne Gospel's by Bishop Eadfrith in the 600s
Book of Psalms by Aldhelm circa 700
An 8th century Psalter
The Caedmon manuscript sometime between 700-1000
Venerable Bed's Gospel of John about 731
The Paris Psalter,perhaps written by King Alfred in the 800s
The Pentateuch circa 900
The Wessex Gospels around 900
Aldred's gloss on the Gospels between 950-970
The Lambeth Psalter around 1000 AD
Richard Rolle's work in 1300 before Wycliffe
A lot of these were paraphrases --some were not so loose but used idiomatic language.
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Yet many Bibles were chained in the churches dating back to Medieval times.
Aldhelm (640-709)
Alfred the Great (849-899)
These and others produced translations of portions of God's word before the era of Wycliffe.
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