The Battle of Two Bibles: When and How Did the King James Bible Gain Its Popularity over the Geneva Bible?HSING-HAO CHAORenaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
Genesis 35:22This teacheth that the fathers were not chosen for their merits, but by God’s only mercies, whose election by their faults was not changed. Genesis 35:22 in all English translations Genesis 49:4 1599 Geneva Bible 4Thou wastlight as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because...
Judges 7:13-15 1599 Geneva Bible 13 And when Gideon was come, behold, a man told a dream unto his neighbor, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream and lo, a [a]cake of barley bread tumbled from above into the host of Midian, and came into a tent, and sm...
Geneva Bible of 1587And when this Epistle is read of you, cause that it be read in the Church of the Laodiceans also, and that ye likewise reade the Epistle written from Laodicea.Bishops' Bible of 1568And when the epistle is read of you, make that it be read also in the Church of...
Barnes' Notes on the BibleAnd knew not whence it was - This is said, probably, to indicate that his judgment was not biased by any favor, or any lack of favor, toward Jesus. Had he known what was done, he would have been less likely to have judged impartially. As it is, we have...
Trachonitis.—This, like Ituræa, is mentioned here, and here only, in the Bible. It corresponds with the Argob ofDeuteronomy 3:14, and with the modernEl Lejah.Both the Hebrew and the Greek names point to the rocky character of the region with its caves and cliffs. It was conquer...
6The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I ...
Puritans modeled their Churches of Christ (Winthrop 264) after the Christian church of the first century following the death of Jesus (at least their vision of what the church was like), a primitive Christianity based on the letters of the Apostles in the Geneva Bible, the preferred version ...
Luke 7 When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews t
Mack was last seen chasing after Raniere in Mexico as cops hauled him away. The actress first lured the women into the secret society within Nxivm known as “The Vow” — and cajoled them into providing “collateral” like embarrassing photos and statements to use as blackmail, federal prosecu...