The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-27
Bible TransIations.

English Bible TransIatiOns.
fYoKIIFFE's B1BLE.-This was the first
Slation made into our language. 1t was
nslated by John de Wyckliffe, or Wyck-
fe, about the year 1860, but never printed,
ugh there are manuscript copies of it in
Fsral European libraries. This great work
locked the Scriptures to the multitude, or,
one of his antagonists, bewailing such an
erprise, worded it, ''the gospel pearl was
A abroad and trodden under foot" May
Fckliffe not be justly styled the Morning
y of the Reformation
CySDALE's BIBLE.-The translation of Will
Tyndale, assisted by Miles Coverdale,
the first printed Bible in the English Ian
Hge The New Testament was published
526. 1t was revised and republished in
20. Two years later, Tyndale and his asso-
ties iniShed the whole Bible, except the
ocrypha, and printed it in Germany.
fleet copy was sold in London, in 1858, for
025.
MATTHEW'S BBIE.-W While Tyndale was pre-
hing second edition of the Bible. he was
Fested and burned, after being strangled,
heresy. This was on Friday, the 9Th of
ober, 1886. After his death, Coverdale
John Rogers revised it, and added
nslation Of the Apocrypha. 1t was dedi-
ted to Henry III, in 1887, and was printed
Hamburg, under tie borrowed name of
omas Matthew, whence it was called Mat
(w's Bible. A copy was recently sold for
75O
DRANMER's BIBLE.-This was the first Bible
pted by authority in England, and publicly
up in the churches. 1t was Tyndales
sion, revised by Coverdale and Cranmer,
added q preface to it, whence it was
ed Cranmer's Bible. 1t was printed by
fton, and published in 1910. After being
bpted, suppressed, and restored under sue
Eive reigns, new edition was issued in
%, copy of which brought, at a recent
in England, the sum of $G10.
he GENEVA BBLE.-Several English ex-
at Geneva, in Queen Mary's reign, viz:
erdale, Cole, Goodman, Gibbie Knox,
npson, and Wittingham, made a new
lslation, which was printed there in 1869.
New Testament, however, had been
led three years before. Hence it has ever
be been known as the Geneva Bible. 1t
much valued by the Puritan party. In
version the first distinction in verses was
le. 1t went through some twenty edi-
HE BIsHoP's BIBLE.--Archbishop Parker
aged bishops and other learned men to
pare and publish another translation.
y did 80 in 1868, in large folio. 1t made
was afterwards called the Great English
e, and commonly called the Bishops
(ble. In 1889 it was published in octave,
small but fine black letter. In it the
Iapters were divided into verses, but with
hut breaks.
MATTHEW PARKER's BIBLE.-The Bishops
ible underwent some corrections from the
ands of Matthew Parker, second Protestant
Bishop of Canterbury, who was selected for
That duty by Queen Elizabeth, and was printed
IN large folio, in 1872, and called Matthew
Parker Bible This version was used in the
|hurches for forty years. There is we'll
reserved copy of this rare edition of the
tcriptures in the possession of gentleman
Eesiding in New York city.
4 The DoUAY BBLE.-The New Testament
was published by the Roman Catholics in
S584. and called the Rhenish New Testa-
nent 1t was condemned by the Queen of
England, and copies were seized by her au-
fhority and destroyed. In 1909 and 1910,
She Old Testament was added, and the whole
bublished at Douay, hence ever since known
IS the Douay Bible.
BEzA LK.-This edition Of the Scriptures
has translated by Theodorus Beza near the
lose of the sixteenth century, and published
n the year 1899. The following is a copy OF
Me title-page of the New Testament, Oer6atiUl
Iiteratim:-''The New Testament of oui
ord Jesus Christ, translated out of Greeke
y THeod. Besai With brief summaries and
positions upon the hard places by the said
futhour, Ioao (azper. and p. LOseLer HdUe9iaS.
ngelished by L. Tomson. Together aOtth TIE
nn0tationS of Fir. Innius upon the Revela-
lon of s.. John. Imprinted at London by
be Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer
Ethe Queene's most Excellent Majestic
300" The volume opens with primitive
Brsion of the Psalms in verse, then follow
he Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and New
testament, as in Bibles of the present day.
KING JAMES VERSION. The version of the
Ecriptures now in use was brought out by th'
authority of King James 1, in 1911. Fifty
bur learned men were employed to accom-
flish the work of revision. From death o
fther causes, seven of them failed to ente
kpon it, The remaining forty seven wer
krged under six divisions, and had differen
PORTIONS of the Bible assigned to those diyi
lions They entered upon their task in 1907
Ind, after nearly four years of diligent labor
he work was completed. This version wa