They thought for themselves.
They searched they researched looked into the orignal language in translation so letting no man translate it for them.
They let the orginal language used translate itself in meaning and understanding!.
When we stand before God!
We stand alone so let no preacher or teacher or translator think for you.
Think for yourselves 'they did!
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The Origin and Growth of the English Bible:I have before me a
'Chart Revision', courtesy of
Back To The Bible Broadcast , Lincoln, Nebraska.In the above drawing is shown the gradual development of the English Bible as well as the foundation upon which each successive version rests.
We are living in an age of of printing.
It is hard for us to realize that when the books of the Bible were originally written, there was no printing press to multiply the copies.
Each copy must be made slowly and laboriously by hand. Under these conditions it was inevitable that many ancient books should be lost. This largely accounts for the fact that all the orginal manuscripts of the Bible have perished.
The question arises, what have we then as the literary foundation of our Bible?
1) We have the most ancient copies made from the original manuscripts. We mention only three principal ones.
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a)
The Codex Sinaiticus, origianally a codex of the Greek Bible belonging to the fourth century. Purchased from the Soviet Republic of Russia in 1933 by Great Britain and is now in the British Museum.
b)
The Codex Vaticanus, in the Vatical library at Rome, originally contained the whole Bible but parts are lost.Written probably about the fourth century.
c)
The CodexAlexandrinus probably written in the fifth century now in the British Museum. It contains the whole Greek Bible with the exception of the forty lost leaves.
2) THE ANCIENT VERSIONS.a)
The Septuagint Version. The Translation of the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, made at Alexandria about 285 BC.
b)
The Samaritan Pentateuch, not stricty speaking a version, but the Hebrew text perpetuated in Samaritan characters.
c)
Peshito or Syriac. The whole Bible, date uncertain (first or second century?) apparently a translation into the common language of certain portions of Syria.
d)
The Vulgate. The entire Bible translated into the Latin language, by Jerome at Bethlehem. Completed about 400 A.D. For a thousand years this was standard Bible in the Catholic Church.
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'Lord Willing we will carry on into the English Versions, later.
-Lynn, You may wish to take over here ENGLISH VERSIONS.
