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Catholic word of the Day: GENEVA BIBLE, 12-05-13
CCDictionary ^ | 12-05-13 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 12/05/2013 7:36:57 AM PST by Salvation

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GENEVA BIBLE

 

An English translation of the Bible, under Protestant auspices, published in Geneva in 1560. It was the first English edition to use verse divisions, had a strong Calvinist tone, and is popularly known as the "Breeches Bible" because of its translation of Genesis 3:7, "they . . . made themselves breeches."

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.



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Why would a Bible use the word "breeches'? Truly funny with what Adam and Eve had to work with.
1 posted on 12/05/2013 7:36:58 AM PST by Salvation
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2 posted on 12/05/2013 7:40:44 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
"Why would a Bible use the word "breeches'? Truly funny with what Adam and Eve had to work with."

Yes, it is right up there with "purgatory" and "pope" and "transubstantiation". LOL.

3 posted on 12/05/2013 7:40:51 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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To: Salvation; Alex Murphy; Greetings_Puny_Humans
Just shows how culture can influence translations.

Of interest the Geneva Bible was published some 50 years before the king James. It was the Bible than come over on the Mayflower.

Why was it published in Geneva? Many of the scholars who did the translation fled Bloody Mary's (Catholic) persecution and wound up in Geneva.

To say the Bible had a strong Calvinist tone is misleading. All Bibles have a strong Calvinist tone. The study notes pointed out the Sovereign Grace found throughout.

It may surprise you, but I have a copy at home.

4 posted on 12/05/2013 7:46:45 AM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: Salvation

Fig leaves make lousy clothing no matter what item is being fabricated from them.


5 posted on 12/05/2013 7:48:52 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Gamecock

Calvin took the idea too far and restricted God to being able to only work within the confines of the causation principles we know in the timeline of our mortal coil. In doing so, he did violence to other principles that God established.


6 posted on 12/05/2013 7:51:31 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Gamecock; Salvation
It may surprise you, but I have a copy at home.

And, statistically speaking, Protestants are eight times more likely to read the Bible than Catholics are!

"Just three minutes a day is all we ask!"

7 posted on 12/05/2013 8:04:06 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Gamecock
In fact, the King James bible was commissioned specifically for the purpose of suppressing the Geneva bible, which in its then-current editions featured abundant inflammatory footnotes against the tyranny of human governments. Footnotes were courtesty of one John Knox, the man who essentially converted Scotland wholesale to Presbyterianism.

James I was not going to allow that bible to continue to circulate if he could help it... hence his "authorized" version.

8 posted on 12/05/2013 8:04:39 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Calvin just reported what Scripture says.


9 posted on 12/05/2013 8:20:05 AM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: Gamecock

I am fortunate enough to have leafs from a 1600 edition from some of my favorite chapters, including John 10. I treasure those pages. one year i gave them as Christmas gifts, with each sandwiched between glass in frames that could either sit on a table or display on the wall, showing either side. Spent weeks making them. My sister’s reply was something asking the lines of “so what’s the big deal? a bible page?” the verse about casting pearls before swine immediately came to mind. sad.

it is not uncommon to find leafs that are blood stained, testifying to the owner who died for their faith.


10 posted on 12/05/2013 8:31:36 AM PST by woollyone ("The heart is deceptive above all things and beyond cure"s)
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To: Gamecock

I’m not surprised you have a copy. Good for you — does it have the Apocrypha?


11 posted on 12/05/2013 8:42:32 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Alex Murphy

Catholics can do that too. Each every day.....and sometimes more.


12 posted on 12/05/2013 8:43:59 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Of course it does. As did the King Jimmy.

Prods have always said it is useful, just not canon.


13 posted on 12/05/2013 9:08:58 AM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: woollyone

Very cool.


14 posted on 12/05/2013 9:09:50 AM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Fig leaves make lousy clothing no matter what item is being fabricated from them.

And it was waaaaay before polyester:)

15 posted on 12/05/2013 12:47:38 PM PST by redleghunter
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