A Brief Sketch of the History of the Transmission of the Bible Down to the Revised English Version of 1881-95The University Press, 1926 - 75 pages |
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Page 24 - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
Page 25 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Page 70 - THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, &c. The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, with the Text revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions...
Page 61 - THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK. The Text Revised by BF WESTCOTT, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity, Canon of Westminster, and FJA HORT, DD, Hulsean Professor of Divinity ; Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge : late Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. 2 vols. Crown 8vo.
Page 28 - The two English apostates, snatching away with them the quarto sheets printed, fled by ship, going up the Rhine to Worms, where the people were under the full rage of Lutheranism, that there, by another printer, they might complete the work begun.
Page 62 - COPTIC. The Gospel of St. John according to the earliest Coptic manuscript.
Page 20 - I wold desire that all women shuld reade the gospell and Paules epistles/ and I wold to god they were translated in to the tonges of all men/ So that they might not only be read/ and knowne/ of the scotes and yryshmen/ But also of the Turkes and...
Page 20 - I would to God the ploughman would sing a text of the Scripture at his ploughbeam. And that the weaver at his loom with this would drive away the tediousness of time. I would the wayfaring man with this pastime would expell the weariness of his journey. And to be short, I would that all the communication of the Christian should be of the Scripture, for in a manner such are we ourselves as our daily tales are.
Page 36 - I had no man to counterfet, nether was holpe with englysshe of eny that had interpreted the same, or soche lyke thinge in the scripture before tyme.
Page 34 - I dare say, than most of the merchants of England that are here; for I know the Dutchmen and strangers that have bought them of Tyndale and have them here to sell; so that if it be your lordship's pleasure to pay for them (for otherwise I cannot come by them but I must disburse money for them), I will then assure you to have every book of them that is imprinted and is here unsold.