1560 Geneva Bible Faith Of The Founders

JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary ^ | 03/21/2010 | JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary

[Copernicus]

Few people are aware of the political nature of the King James English Translation of the Bible.

The Bible carried by early English settlers was the 1560 Geneva Bible (not to be confused with the 1599 Geneva Bible).

It was marked for displacement by King James because of the unpleasant references to Kings and Tyranny and regicide sprinkled throughout the instructional commentary.

With diligent effort by the Crown the 1560 Geneva Bible all but disappeared from common use within a few short decades completely replaced by the King James Bible.

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[Copernicus]

Regicide? When was the last time you heard that word in casual conversation?

Best regards to all,

[skr]

self-ping

[dangus]

“After Mr. Jackson dominated the World Series, the rest of the Yankees were glad they were on Regicide.”

(Hey, you wanted me to write about the Yankees, didncha?”)

[ColdSteelTalon]

I will be a King James man for the rest of my life. Its the only version I trust.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I will be a King James man for the rest of my life. Its the only version I trust.

[B4Ranch]

In 1782, during the waning days of the American Revolution, Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken obtained the authorization of Congress to print a rather patriotic Bible.

(snip)

This endorsement by the secular of the spiritual would have been a flagrant violation of the church/state divide — but it was nine years before that concept would be codified and ratified in the First Amendment. So Aitken printed 10,000 copies of his pocket-size Scripture, with the congressional plug on the very first page (Congress “recommend[s] this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.”)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091603463.html

[Copernicus]

Wow, new to me!

Thanks!

Best regards,

[B4Ranch]

It just adds a little more weight to the fact that we are a “One Nation under God.”