Geneva HOLY BIBLE 1613 New Testament ANTIQUE Puritan RARE English BLACK LETTER

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You are bidding on one of the most coveted pieces of Christian Literature ever made... ...A... RARE 1610 BLACK LETTER GENEVA NEW TESTAMENT! The New Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ, conferred diligently with the Greeke and best approoued Translations in diuers Languages. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1613. A truly fascinating and RARE King James I Era Geneva New Testament Bible. This book carries a later fine leather binding, with a few raised bands and a gilt title on the spine. Within, the Bible has some minor instances of soiling, but retains the gorgeous engraved title to the New Testament, as shown.The majority of the text is in great shape for its age, as shown, printed in Old English Black Letter text. Bible is in English, two columns with frequent notes and marginal commentary, as shown throughout. All pages present, and 100% complete with some slight loss due to trimming touching the glosses , however, no main text affected. Newer eggshell EPs. Measures roughly 9" x 7". This is a truly historical find, and is a treasure that only few can call their own. History: With the onset of persecution by English Queen "Bloody Mary" (Mary I) against Protestants in the 1550s, many fled to Geneva to practice their faith free of fear and persecution. Among such Protestants were Myles Coverdale and John Knox, as well as noted Reformer and theologian John Calvin, and others. Several of these Protestants, including Myles Coverdale, William Whittingham (Calvin’s brother-in-law), and John Knox, worked on a version of the English Bible which was named after its home city – the Geneva Bible. This Bible became one of the most historically notable English Bibles to be issued prior to the King James Version. It was translated from the original Biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek, and was a Bible of many firsts – the first to divide chapters into numbered verses, and the first to add study notes. Many of these notes were written by John Calvin, and would later be criticized for their Calvinistic or distinctively Reformed doctrine. It was also printed in a more manageable size, good for personal study and carrying. This Bible was first published in 1560, and in 1576 would also be published in England – the very land from which the Reformers had originally fled two decades earlier. Not only was this Bible significant at the time of its printing, but it would also be used by other historically significant figures. William Shakespeare alone quotes from it over five thousand times. It was also the Bible of the Pilgrims, as they sailed the Mayflower to the New World, once again in search of religious freedom. It became nicknamed the "Breeches Bible" for its rendering of Genesis 3:7, in which Adam and Eve make clothes for themselves: ".And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree leaves together and made themselves Breeches." The Geneva Bible would remain England’s most popular Bible until the early 1600s, when the newly translated 1611 King James Version resulted in a ban against other English versions of the Bible, in favor of one commonly-used one. Still, throughout its decades of popularity, the Geneva Bible achieved notoriety eclipsed only by that of its successor, the King James Version, and made a lasting contribution to the form of our English Bibles today. More History: The Geneva Bible was first issued in England in 1575 and it would become the Bible of Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan, as well as the Pilgrim Fathers. In the words of Cleland Boyd McAfee, its forceful and vigorous readings "drove the Great Bible off the field by sheer power of excellence". The key advantage of this Bible was its size. As a quarto it could easily be held and read, making it the first domestic Elizabethan Bible.Posted with the eBay Android app read more

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