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... rendering of the five books of Moses , Joshua , Judges , and certain other Old Testament books . Ælfric's object in translating is clearly expressed in his homily On Reading the Scriptures : " Whoever would be one with God , must often ...
... rendering of the five books of Moses , Joshua , Judges , and certain other Old Testament books . Ælfric's object in translating is clearly expressed in his homily On Reading the Scriptures : " Whoever would be one with God , must often ...
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... renderings unintelligible in English . On the other hand , this dependence on the Vulgate had some compensating advantages . For one thing it enabled the new English version to be recognised as the same as the " common Bible ...
... renderings unintelligible in English . On the other hand , this dependence on the Vulgate had some compensating advantages . For one thing it enabled the new English version to be recognised as the same as the " common Bible ...
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... renderings suggested by the peculiar customs of the time are no longer so appropriate , as : " And Jhesus stood bifor the domesman , and the iustice axide him , and seide , Art thou King of Jewis ? " or Thanne kny3tis of the iustice ...
... renderings suggested by the peculiar customs of the time are no longer so appropriate , as : " And Jhesus stood bifor the domesman , and the iustice axide him , and seide , Art thou King of Jewis ? " or Thanne kny3tis of the iustice ...
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... rendering of the Bible into the English tongue , and it falls to us now to sketch the life of the man who was to accomplish this , and " to whom it has been allowed more than to any other man to give its characteristic shape to our ...
... rendering of the Bible into the English tongue , and it falls to us now to sketch the life of the man who was to accomplish this , and " to whom it has been allowed more than to any other man to give its characteristic shape to our ...
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... renderings due to Luther's influence , though in neither case does Tindale slavishly copy . In the first instance the German has only α remembrance , " and in the second the verb employed denotes " whet " or " sharpen " rather than ...
... renderings due to Luther's influence , though in neither case does Tindale slavishly copy . In the first instance the German has only α remembrance , " and in the second the verb employed denotes " whet " or " sharpen " rather than ...
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according amongst Apocrypha appeared Archbishop Authorised Version Bible-translation Bishops Cædmon CHAPTER Christ Christian Church Cochlæus copy Coverdale Coverdale's Cranmer Cromwell Deut diligently Edinburgh edition England English Bible English versions Epistle erthe example faith father Genevan Bible Genevan version George Joye given God's Gospels grace Greek hath Hebrew Hexapla Holy Scriptures influence interesting introduced italics John John Wycliffe King labours later Latin learned Little Sodbury London Lord Luke Luther marginal notes Matt Matthew's Bible Miles Coverdale Name of Jesus Old Testament original Oxford passage Pentateuch Prayer of Manasseh Preface printed Prologue Psalms Psalter Purvey Purvey's revision quarto renderings Revised Version Rheims Rogers scholars sentence shalt Spirit Taverner's Bible thee thine things thou Tindale Tindale's tion title-page translation truth unto verses Vulgate Westcott Whittingham whole Bible words writing Wycliffe Wycliffe's Wycliffite Wycliffite versions
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Page 129 - Behold, a sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Page 34 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 86 - And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Page 12 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 34 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 45 - I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, to give a reckoning of our doings, that I never altered one syllable of God's word against my conscience, nor would this day, if all that is in the earth, whether it be pleasure, honour, or riches, might be given me.
Page 95 - Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have : for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Page 117 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Page 71 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 47 - Of the translation itself, though since that time it has been many times revised and altered, we may say that it is substantially the Bible with which we are all familiar. The peculiar genius . — if such a word may be permitted — which breathes through it, the mingled tenderness and majesty, the Saxon simplicity, the preternatural...