1599 Gerneva Bible

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THE 1599 GENEVA BIBLE

AND THE 1599 GENEVA BIBLE NOTES

Most PDF Files Are Readable and Searchable, except Scanned Images

ALSO INCLUDED

SCANNED IMAGES OF THE ORIGINAL

1599 GENEVA BIBLE (561 Pages)

Scanned images are not searchable with the PDF format.

AND I INCLUDE

A READABLE AND SEARCHABLE

KING JAMES BIBLE (1769 Edition)

Which you can use for Comparison or just Reading

An excellent resource for the serious Bible Student or anyone who loves to read the Scriptures

Each “readable and searchable” file is in PDF format and “bookmarked” by book and most by chapter so that you can navigate through reading the Bible just as you can a printed book. The Adobe Reader 6.0 or 7.0 can even “read aloud” to you. ** However this is not an “audio CD”. The Adobe Reader is provided on the CD

HERE IS WHAT YOU GET

1599 Geneva Bible (BTF-Large Print Compilation)

Sample of the Text: (Text can be enlarged to whatever size is needed).

Gen 1:4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated the

light from the darkenes.

Gen 1:5 And God called the Light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.

Gen 1:6 ¶ Againe God said, Let there be a firmament in the mids of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

1599 GENEVA BIBLE NOTES

Sample of Text With Notes

Eph 1:5

1:5 {8} Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ {h} to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will

(8) Another plainer exposition of the efficient cause, and also of eternal election, by which God is said to have chosen us in Christ, that is, because it pleased him to appoint us when we were not yet born, whom he would make to be his children by Jesus Christ. So that there is no reason for our election to be looked for here, except in the free mercy of God. And neither is faith which God foresaw the cause of our predestination, but the effect.

(h) God respects nothing, either anything that is present, or anything that is to come, but himself only.

** PLUS **

561 Scanned Pages of the 1599 Geneva Bible

(This is a 104 Megabyte File)

** See comments below about the Geneva Bible

** Printed Copies of the 1599 Geneva Bible retail for $100 or more!!!

1611 King James Version (Translation) – actual 1769 Edition

With the Apocryphal Books

Concerning the Geneva Bible:

The Geneva Bible is a critical, yet almost completely forgotten part of the Protestant Reformation. Driven out of England by the persecutions of Bloody Mary, several future leaders of the Reformation came to Geneva to create a pure and accurate translation of the Holy Writ. Concerned about the influence that the Catholic Church had on the existing translations of the Bible from the Latin, these men turned to the original Hebrew and Greek texts to produce the Geneva Bible. This made the Geneva Bible the first complete Bible to be translated into English from the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

The creation of the Geneva Bible was a substantial undertaking. Its authors spent over two years, working diligently day and night by candlelight, to finish the translation and the commentaries. The entire project was funded by the exiled English congregation in Geneva, making the translation a work supported by the people and not by an authoritarian church or Monarch as was the King James Translation.

All the marginal commentaries were finished by 1599, making the 1599 edition of the Geneva Bible the most complete study aide for Biblical scholars and students. The greatest distinction of the Geneva Bible, however, is the extensive collection of marginal notes that it contains. Prominent Reformation leaders such as John Calvin, John Knox, Miles Coverdale, William Whittingham, Theodore Beza, and Anthony Gilby wrote the majority of these notes in order to explain and interpret the scriptures. The notes comprise nearly 300,000 words, or nearly one-third the length of the Bible itself, and they are justifiably considered the most complete source of Protestant religious thought available.

Owing to the marginal notes and the superior quality of the translation, the Geneva Bible became the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries. It was continually printed from 1560 to 1644 in over 200 different editions. It was the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers, thinkers, and historical figures of the Reformation era. The writings of John Milton and John Bunyan were clearly influenced by the Geneva Bible. Oliver Cromwell issued a pamphlet containing excerpts from the Geneva Bible to his troops during the English Civil War. When the Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower they took with them exclusively the Geneva Bible.

The marginal notes of the Geneva Bible enraged the Catholic Church, since the notes deemed the act of confession to men – the Catholic Bishops – as unjustified by Holy Script. Man should confess to God only; man’s private life was man’s private life. The notes also infuriated King James, since they allowed disobedience to tyrannical kings. King James went so far as to make ownership of the Geneva Bible a felony. He then proceeded to make his own version of the Bible, but without the marginal notes that had so disturbed him. Consequently, during King James’s reign, and into the reign of Charles I, the Geneva Bible was gradually replaced by the King James Bible.

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