Posted on 04/25/2016 4:38:40 PM PDT by Psalm 144
Can anyone recommend a particular publisher and version of the Geneva Bible which will contain the Reformers' notes? I want to get some feel for the Reformers' ideas on the relationship, limits, and obligations between the Christian citizen and the State. Thanks in advance!
Have you considered the Reformation Study Bible?......(Sproul....Ligonier)
The Reformation Study Bible is not quite the same as the Geneva Bible. My copy is actually a New King James Version of the Bible with notes which, according to Sproul, are “in the tradition of the original Geneva Bible”. I think that what Sproul means is that it attempts to adhere to the Reformed tradition of Calvin, Beza, Farel, and Knox. I do not believe that it is the Geneva Bible translation nor does it include the original notes.
Not sure there would be a large variance in the notes to make a difference.
You are correct.
I have both the NKJV and the ESV vesions.
There is a good site on Reformed theology named: monergism.com.
They seem to have links to several translations of the Geneva Bible. Some of them include notes. All of them should be FREE!
http://www.heatherhammond.com/geneva1560.pdf
If this isn't what you want, search around at Google and you should be able to find other versions.
ML/NJ
Thanks
I realize it’s not the same....
....just offering an option
How about picking up an authentic unannotated bible like the Latin Vulgate or the prior Africanus or Vaticanus to see what was originally written 1000 years before the “reformers” got their paws on it?
People seem to be suggesting websites to you rather than actual book versions.
look here at the top two items:
The Geneva Bible is just about the only English Bible I don’t have a copy yet. One of these days. . .
I have two.
One is the complete 1599 version,
L.L.Brown Publishing
561 Melton Road
Ozark, Mo 65721
The second is the NT only.
1602 version
from The Pilgrim Press
Both are photo copies with original notes. The L.L. Brown printing says the Apocrypha was not in theirs, but it WAS!
A suggestion. The printing is as original, hard to read till you get used to it, the NOTES are very small. Get a full page magnifier to enlarge the small print.
***Ahhh, the Bible that came to America on the Mayflower!***
It is easy to see why the Geneva was still preferred over the KJV. I have a photocopy of an original KJV and it is UNREADABLE with it’s Old English lettering. The Gothic print of the Geneva is much easier on the eyes.
“L.L. Brown printing says the Apocrypha was not in theirs, but it WAS!”
It is funny that the Apocrypha was in each and every bible prior to when your “reformers” got their paws on it.i
They “reformed” it so much you can’t even see it anymore.
By george that should be the definition of “reformers”: “As those who made authentic scripture disappear”
AMDG
$10 as a PDF here (Patriot version, also PDF), and if you have the WordSEARCH program, here, also for $10.
Here you are...the 1599 Geneva Bible with Study notes (in PDF format..Free download =
https://www.monergism.com/1599-geneva-bible
Actually the REFORMERS did not remove it as it is in my repro copy of the 1611 KJV from Nelson and Geneva. It is not in my photocopy of the KJV Old English version but it originally was. You can get a list of the translators who translated the Apocrypha for the original KJV.
I also saw a new KJV printed in England with the Apocrypha in it from Cambridge Printers no less.
If it is not in the USA versions you can still order it in a separate book.
I have read it several times and believe EVERYONE should read the Apocrypha to see just why it is not included in most modern printings of the Bible.
I should add that when Jerome translated the Vulgate he wanted to remove the Apocrypha was ordered to keep it in.
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