The Part of Rheims in the Making of the English Bible

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Clarendon Press, 1902 - 259 pages

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Page 1 - Oxford. 13. The directors in each company to be the Deans of Westminster and Chester for that place, and the king's professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either university. 14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishops' Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.
Page 80 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets : 15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Page 23 - Geneva to be), and this to be done by the best learned in both the universities ; after them to be reviewed by the bishops and the chief learned of the church; from them to be presented to the privy council; and lastly to be ratified by his royal authority. And so this whole church to be bound unto it and none other.
Page 17 - Which translation we do not for all that publish, upon erroneous opinion of necessity, that the Holy Scriptures should always be in our mother tongue or that they ought, or were ordained by God, to be read indifferently of all...
Page 15 - Our adversaries, on the other hand, have at their fingers' ends, from some heretical version, all those passages of Scripture which seem to make for them, and by a certain deceptive adaptation and alteration of the sacred words produce the effect of appearing to say nothing but what comes from the Bible.
Page 6 - ... have been as well correct as other books be. And because I could not be present myself, by the reason of sundry notable impediments ; therefore inasmuch as the new Testament, which I had set forth in English before, doth so agree with the Latin, I was heartily well content, that the Latin and it should be set together; provided alway, that the corrector should follow the true copy of the Latin in any wise, and to keep the true and right English of the same.
Page 188 - Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Page 83 - O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you...
Page 117 - No servant can serve two masters : for either he will hate the one, and love the other ; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
Page 18 - A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the Heretikes of our Daies, specially the English Sectaries, and of their foule dealing herein...

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