单词 | geneva bible |
释义 | > as lemmasGeneva Bible b. attributive. Designating the English translation of the Bible originally published in 1560 by Protestant scholars working in Europe, and typically the favoured translation of English Puritans and members of separatist congregations opposed to the episcopal government of the Church of England. Chiefly in Geneva Bible.The New Testament had originally been published separately in 1557. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > edition > [noun] > Geneva Geneva Bible1566 Breeches Bible1835 1566 Abp. M. Parker Let. 9 Mar. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 261 The reimprinting of the late Geneva Bible. c1570 in Strype's Parker App. 139 This Error is also in the Geneva Bible. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §8. 110 The Geneua Translation cals it [sc. Gopher] Pinetree, the Rabbine Cedar, the Seuentie square timber. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 41 Get thee hence, thou old Geneva Testament: thou art a part of the Ceremonial Law, and hast been abolish'd these twenty years. 1690 T. Brown Late Converts Exposed 17 The only revenge..wou'd be..to order that whosoever cou'd not read a Geneva-Bible at two yards distance and vault over a five-barr'd Gate, should forfeit his Mitre. 1798 F. Eyre Reply to Rev. R. Churton 109 The editors of the Geneva Bible assert that the apostle when he here speaks of scripture only means the old testament. 1885 Cent. Mag. Dec. 219/1 An old Geneva Bible (dating from 1599), now at Gardiner's Island,contains an entry in antique and much faded writing. 1911 G. H. Fitch Comfort found in Good Old Bks. 136 He [sc. the King] said that the Geneva Bible taught sedition and disobedience, and by royal mandate he ordered Bishop Reynolds and his associates to make the best version in their power. 2000 Church Times 24 Mar. 5/1 The Bible, a Geneva Bible of 1597, was stolen from St Luke's, Wolverhampton. 2003 F. Heal Reformation in Brit. & Ireland vii. 275 Institutional difficulties..included the hostility of the conservative bishops in Henry VIII's reign; the distaste for the Geneva translation by sections of the clerical establishment [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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