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The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and the King James Version by 51 years. [1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, [2] Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others.
The Great Bible (named for its large page size and first ordered by Henry VIII in 1538) was restored to the churches after Elizabeth I’s succession halted persecution of Anglicans and Protestants, but the Geneva Bible, imported from Europe and not printed in England until 1576, quickly surpassed the Great Bible in public favour. The Geneva Bible was the first Bible in English to add numbered ...
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The Geneva Bible was the Bible of William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and Oliver Cromwell. This is the version that Pilgrims and Puritans brought with them to America. The Geneva version is often referred to as the "Breeches Bible" because of use of the word "breeches" in Gen. 3:7: Then the eyes of both [Adam and Eve] were opened, and they knew ...
Sep 21, 2007 · Until now, your only option was a hard-to-read facsimile. The Tolle Lege 1599 Geneva Bible makes the people's Bible accessible once again to the people. LINKS Tolle Lege Press | Wikipedia entry on The Geneva Bible | L.L. Brown edition of 1599 Geneva Bible | Facsimile of 1560 Geneva Bible | High Resolution Scans of 1560 Geneva Bible
For centuries the city of Geneva was a haven for political and religious refugees. In the mid-1500s religious exiles from continental Europe and England fled by the thousands to Geneva to escape persecution and map out the future of the Protestant Reformation. It was here that a colony of English Protestant refugees found a sanctuary where they ...
David Daniell asserts the Geneva Bible was "driven out by political and commercial interests from 1611, and forced out of the public view from 1660." An obvious influence of the Geneva Bible is the number of its "firsts" that continue to be used almost 450 years later in today’s English Bibles.
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John Calvin (1509 - 1564) Many of the English reformers who fled during Mary’s reign settled in John Calvin’s Geneva, Switzerland. By November 1555 there were enough English exiles to establish their own place of worship, and they did so with Calvin’s help. William Whittingham was one of those congregants and a leading scholar.
