A Collation of the Principal English Translations of the Sacred Scriptures: The Old Testament from the Translations of John Rogers, the Bishops, the Genevan, and Present Authorized Version; the New Testament from Wiclif, Rogers, the Rhemes, Or Roman Catholic Version, the Genevan, the Present Authorised, and the Version by Gilbert Wakefield; with an Historical Account of the English Versions, and of the More Ancient Mss. and Editions with the Memoirs of the Principal TranslatorsSamuel Bagster and Sons, 1847 - 323 pages |
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... thousand years , and is now in the library of the University of Cambridge . " It contains the Old and New Testaments , engrossed on strong vellum , in large folio , having three columns in a page , and is written with beautiful accuracy ...
... thousand years , and is now in the library of the University of Cambridge . " It contains the Old and New Testaments , engrossed on strong vellum , in large folio , having three columns in a page , and is written with beautiful accuracy ...
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... thousand could read . 5 7 The price of a Bible in England in A.D. 1274 , was £ 30 : while the pay of a labouring man at same time was only 1d . per day . The expense of building two arches of London bridge in 1240 cost only L.25 , which ...
... thousand could read . 5 7 The price of a Bible in England in A.D. 1274 , was £ 30 : while the pay of a labouring man at same time was only 1d . per day . The expense of building two arches of London bridge in 1240 cost only L.25 , which ...
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... thousand do not properly understand them , I trust I shall be pardoned for saying a few words in explanation . The TETRAGRAMMATON , or word of four letters , as it is generally termed by the Jews , will form no sound , unless we supply ...
... thousand do not properly understand them , I trust I shall be pardoned for saying a few words in explanation . The TETRAGRAMMATON , or word of four letters , as it is generally termed by the Jews , will form no sound , unless we supply ...
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... thousands of his admirers . WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM Was born in the City of Chester in 1514 , and educated at Oxford . In 1550 , he went to France , and settled at Orleans , where he married the sister of John Calvin . In 1563 he was ...
... thousands of his admirers . WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM Was born in the City of Chester in 1514 , and educated at Oxford . In 1550 , he went to France , and settled at Orleans , where he married the sister of John Calvin . In 1563 he was ...
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... thousand copies were printed at Antwerp to be put on board the Armada for dispersion in England , but were destroyed by the failure of that enterprise . Allen spent the rest of his life at Rome , and is said to have altered his ...
... thousand copies were printed at Antwerp to be put on board the Armada for dispersion in England , but were destroyed by the failure of that enterprise . Allen spent the rest of his life at Rome , and is said to have altered his ...
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Page 282 - For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Page 188 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 190 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 74 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire : and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 186 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon...
Page 196 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 270 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name...
Page 306 - Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 274 - And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem, insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
Page 66 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck...