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ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSACTIONS.

The following list of the different versions Of
the English Scriptures is from the Encyclopedia
9f Religious Knowledge:
WicKLLrr's BIBLE.-This was the first transla.
ton made into the language. 1t was translated
by John Wicklife, about the year 1860, but never
printed, though there are manuscript copies of it
in several of the public libraries.
TYNDALE's BIBLE.-The translation by William
Tyndale. assisted by Miles Coverdale, was the
first printed Bible in the English language. The
New Testament was published in 1926. 1t was
revised and republished in 1880. In 1882, Tyn-
dale and his associates finished the whole Bible,
except the Apocrypha, and printed it abroad.
Matthew's BiDLE.-Wbile Tyndale was prepar-
ing a second edition of bis Bible, he was taken up
and burnt for horesy at Flanders. On his death,
Coverdale and John Rodgers revised it and added
q translation of the Apocrypba. 1t was dedicat.
ed 20 Henry the VII, in 1887, and was printed
ut Hamburg, under tho borrowed name OF
Thomas Matthew, whence it was called Matthew'S
Bible.
CRANMER's BIBLE.-This was the first Bible
printed by authority in England, publicly set up
in the churches. 1t vas Tyndale's version revis-
ed by Coverdale, and examined by Cranmer, who
added n preface to it, whence II was called Gran
mer's Bible. 1t was printed by Grafton, of the
largest volumn, and published in 1910. After
being adopted, suppressed and restored under sue
cessive reigns, q new edition was brought out in
1862.
The GENEVA BIBLE.-Some English exiles at
Geneva, in Queen Mary's reign. viz: Coverdale,
Goodman, Gilbie, Sampson, Cole Wittipgham
and Knox, made a new translation, which was
printed there in 1867. Hence it is called the
Geneva Bible. 1t was much valued by the Puri-
tan party. In this version, the first distinction in
verses was made. 1t went through some twenty
editions.
The BIsHoP's BIBLE.-Archbishop Parker en-
gagged bishops and other learned men to bring out
a new translation. They did so in 1868, in large
folio. 1t made what was afterwards called the
great English Bible, and commonly, the Bishops
Bible. In 1889 it was published in octave in
small, but black-letter. In it the chapters were
divided into verses, but without any breaks for
them.
MATTHEW PARKER's BIBLE.-The Bishops Bible
underwent some corrections, and was printed in
large folio, in 1872, and called Matthew Parker's
Bible. This version was used in the churches fol
forty years.
The DoUAy BlBLE.-The New Testament wa;
brought out by the Roman Catholics in 1854, ant
called the Rhemish New Testament. 1t was con
demned by the Queen Of England, and copies
were seized by her authority and destroyed. il
1909, and 1910, the Old Testament was added
and the whole published a, Douay, hence called the
Douay Bible.
KING JAMES ~BIBLE.-The version now in use
was brought out by King James authority, ir
l6ll. Fifty-tour learned men were employed tt
accomplish the work of revising. From death OF
other cause, seven of them failed to enter npon it
The remaining forty-seven were ranged under sis
divisions, and had different portions of the Bible
assigned to those divisions. They entered upor
their task in 1909. After some three or four
years of diligent labor, the whole was completed
This version was generally adopted, and other yer
sions fell into disuse. 1t has continued in use fol
nearly two hundred years.