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On Old English Bibles.
This book was reissued in 1553 by Richard Jugge , just before the death of Edward VI . Coverdale ' s Bible is divided into six parts : — 1 . Genesis to Deuteronomy . 2 . Joshua to Esther . 3 . Job to Solomon ' s ballettes . 4 . The Prophets . 5 . The Apocrypha . 6 . The New Testament .
It contains some peculiar readings : — Genesis viii . — " She bare the olive leaf in her nebb . " Judges x . — " Cast a pece of mylstone upon Abimelech's heade and brake his brain panne . " I . Kings xx . — " And shott the King of Israel between the mawe and the lunges . " Psalm lxxiv . — " They cutt downe all the sylinge of ye sanctuary with bylles and axes . " Isaiah v . — " No one faynte nor feble amonge them , no , not a slogish , nor slepery persons . " I . Timothy vi . — " But waysteth his brayne aboute questions , and stryuynges of worcles "
Of the early life of Coverdale not much is known . He was born in Yorkshire about the year 1488 ; he was educated at Cambridge , and took priest ' s orders in 1514 ; he afterwards became an Augustine monk . Although infected with Lntheranism , he was never so violently opposed to the Church as many were with whom he was associated . He devoted much of his life to the translation , and frequent revisionsof
, the Bible , but he appears always to have acted under the direction , and at the expense of others . He says— " Accordynge as I was desyred , anno 1534 , I toke the more vpon to set forth this specyall translacyon . " Again he tells us , that books from which he was to translate were put into his hands which he was glad to " followe for the most parte accordynge as I was required . "
And in the dedication he wrote for Nycholson to add to the second issue of the first English Bible , he says— " as the holy goost moned other men to do the cost hereof , so I was boldened in God to laboure in the same . " Coverdale was consecrated Bishop of Exeter , according to the ritual of the new ordinal , on August 30 th , 1552 , two years before the death of Bishop Veysey , who had been forced out of the see to make room for a man of more
pliant disposition . In the next reign , Coverdale in turn was deprived of the see , and imprisoned . At the request of the King of Denmark to Queen Mary , he was released , and allowed to leave England . As it may be supposed he would do , he took up his residence in Geneva , where he was associated with Whittingham , Calvin , ancl others of similar
opinions . He returned to England early in Queen Elizabeth ' s reign , and was inducted to the living of S . Magus , near London Bridge , but as he declined to be bound by the laws , or conform to the rites and usages of the Church , he hacl to be removed from his office . Coverdale died May 20 th , 1567 , and was buried under the chancel of S . Bartholomew ' s Church , London , and when that church was destroyed in 1840 , his remains were removed to the Church of S . Magus . ( To be continued . )
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Old English Bibles.
This book was reissued in 1553 by Richard Jugge , just before the death of Edward VI . Coverdale ' s Bible is divided into six parts : — 1 . Genesis to Deuteronomy . 2 . Joshua to Esther . 3 . Job to Solomon ' s ballettes . 4 . The Prophets . 5 . The Apocrypha . 6 . The New Testament .
It contains some peculiar readings : — Genesis viii . — " She bare the olive leaf in her nebb . " Judges x . — " Cast a pece of mylstone upon Abimelech's heade and brake his brain panne . " I . Kings xx . — " And shott the King of Israel between the mawe and the lunges . " Psalm lxxiv . — " They cutt downe all the sylinge of ye sanctuary with bylles and axes . " Isaiah v . — " No one faynte nor feble amonge them , no , not a slogish , nor slepery persons . " I . Timothy vi . — " But waysteth his brayne aboute questions , and stryuynges of worcles "
Of the early life of Coverdale not much is known . He was born in Yorkshire about the year 1488 ; he was educated at Cambridge , and took priest ' s orders in 1514 ; he afterwards became an Augustine monk . Although infected with Lntheranism , he was never so violently opposed to the Church as many were with whom he was associated . He devoted much of his life to the translation , and frequent revisionsof
, the Bible , but he appears always to have acted under the direction , and at the expense of others . He says— " Accordynge as I was desyred , anno 1534 , I toke the more vpon to set forth this specyall translacyon . " Again he tells us , that books from which he was to translate were put into his hands which he was glad to " followe for the most parte accordynge as I was required . "
And in the dedication he wrote for Nycholson to add to the second issue of the first English Bible , he says— " as the holy goost moned other men to do the cost hereof , so I was boldened in God to laboure in the same . " Coverdale was consecrated Bishop of Exeter , according to the ritual of the new ordinal , on August 30 th , 1552 , two years before the death of Bishop Veysey , who had been forced out of the see to make room for a man of more
pliant disposition . In the next reign , Coverdale in turn was deprived of the see , and imprisoned . At the request of the King of Denmark to Queen Mary , he was released , and allowed to leave England . As it may be supposed he would do , he took up his residence in Geneva , where he was associated with Whittingham , Calvin , ancl others of similar
opinions . He returned to England early in Queen Elizabeth ' s reign , and was inducted to the living of S . Magus , near London Bridge , but as he declined to be bound by the laws , or conform to the rites and usages of the Church , he hacl to be removed from his office . Coverdale died May 20 th , 1567 , and was buried under the chancel of S . Bartholomew ' s Church , London , and when that church was destroyed in 1840 , his remains were removed to the Church of S . Magus . ( To be continued . )