Our English Bible the Story of Its Origin And Growth
Our English Bible the Story of Its Origin And Growth
Henry William Hamilton Hoare
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Except for the theolo- gical richness of the soil on which his Bible-seed happened by good fortune to fall, it seems more than likely that the last suggestion of the brow-beaten minority would have shared the fate of the Millenary Petition as a whole. And what that fate was appears plainly enough from the character of the Book of Canons of 1604, which embodied the practical reply of Church and Crown to the petitioners. Had so great a misfortune befallen our ancestors of the seventeenth century,... England might have remained up to this very day distracted by the conflicting claims of rival ver- sions of the Scriptures, and we might even now be calling out, in the spirit of the Corinthian converts of COMMITTEE OF TRANSLATORS 249 St Paul, " I am of Tyndale, " " I am of Coverdale, " " I am of Geneva. " When the Conference was dismissed, no one could have had any idea that James intended to adopt a proposal which seems rather to have been extemporised as a happy thought than deliberately formulated as one of the articles of the Petition.
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