The Holy Bible: the Geneva Bible Of 1587

Volume I: Genesis - Job

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Contribution by:

Calvin, John

Author:

Knox, John
Tomson, Laurence
Hill, Rowland

General Editor:

Kelly, Robert
Kelly, Anne

ISBN:

979-8-3621-9252-5

Publication Date:

Nov 2022

Publisher:

Independently Published

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $11.14

Book Description:

Size - 8-1/2 x 11 (like a piece of regular US printer paper) - large 12 pt. type PLEASE READ: EDITOR'S NOTE 2022

While the spellings in this text may appear to us as typos, spelling errors, etc., these spellings, along with their variations and inconsistencies, are original to the manuscript and were acceptable in their historical context.

Sample: For God so loued the worlde, that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne, that whosoeuer...
More Description

Size - 8-1/2 x 11 (like a piece of regular US printer paper) - large 12 pt. type

PLEASE READ: EDITOR'S NOTE 2022

Sample: For God so loued the worlde, that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life..

This is not a scholarly work. The text we used is text we found online and are making assumptions of its reliability, having spot-checked it in areas against in-app versions, for which we also assumed reliability. This book does not attempt to be a representation of the entire 1587 Geneva Bible, but only of the text itself. Moreover, we have created it for our use, but are making it available, royalty-free, to any who might want a physical copy from which to read the Biblical text.

Concerning the text, deliberate deviations from the original 1587 Geneva Bible are as follows (there may be others - we did not study any facsimile):

We did not include any external and internal illustrations and the original book separator materials.
We did not include any prefatory and explanatory materials, charts, tables, etc.
We did not include any marginal notes or study notes.
We did not include any extended book and chapter titles, headings, or explanatory text, but used conventional book titles.
We did not include the any apocryphal texts.
We did not include the apocryphal additions to Esther or Daniel. [1]
We did not include any headings to the individual Psalms.
The text we used contained no special characters, but any special characters were converted to letters contained in the modern English alphabet.

We simply included the 1587 Geneva Bible translation of the text that you would find, generally speaking, in any 66-book Bible.

We hope you understand and enjoy.

God bless you.

[1] For Esther 5:1-2, we pulled that text from a different version of the Geneva Bible, because these two verses were full of extended apocryphal text. See https://biblehub.com/geneva/esther/5.htm.

Book Details

Pages:	486
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	8.5 x 11 x 1.094 Inches
Book Weight:	3.02 Pounds

Author Biography

Knox, John (Contribution by)

Born Jean Cauvin in Noyon, Picardy, France, John Calvin was only a boy when Martin Luther first raised his challenge concerning indulgences. Calvin was enrolled at the age of 14 at the University of Paris, where he received preliminary training in theology and became an elegant Latinist. However, following the dictates of his father, he left Paris at the age of 19 and went to study law, first at Orleans, then at Bourges, in both of which centers the ideas of Luther were already creating a stir.

On his father's death, Calvin returned to Paris, began to study Greek, the language of the New Testament, and decided to devote his life to scholarship. In 1532 he published a commentary on Seneca's De Clementia, but the following year, after experiencing what was considered a sudden conversion, he was forced to flee Paris for his religious views. The next year was given to the study of Hebrew in Basel and to writing the first version of his famous Institutes of the Christian Religion, which he gave to the printer in 1535.

The rest of his life-except for a forced exile of three years-he spent in Geneva, where he became chief pastor, without ever being ordained. When he died, the city was solidly on his side, having almost become what one critic called a "theocracy." By then the fourth and much-revised edition of his Institutes had been published in Latin and French, commentaries had appeared on almost the whole Bible, treatises had been written on the Lord's Supper, on the Anabaptists, and on secret Protestants under persecution in France. Thousands of refugees had come to Geneva, and the city-energized by religious fervor-had found room and work for them.

Though Calvin was sometimes bitter in his denunciation of those who disagreed with him, intolerant of other points of view, and absolutely sure he was right on the matter of predestination, he was nonetheless one of the great expounders of the faith. From his work the Reformed tradition had its genesis,

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