1. The Geneva Bible came long after Wycliffe, who had made his own translation from the Latin Vulgate.
2. William Tyndale was well-versed in both Hebrew and Greek, therefore he made a fresh translation which was largely used by the King James translators. Also this long before the Geneva Bible.
3. Darby was a fan of Westcott & Hort, and his translation slavishly follows their corrupt Greek text. He has nothing to do with the Geneva Bible.
4. Yes, the Geneva Bible was the preferred bible of the Puritans and the Calvinists. But in the end if fell into disuse for two reasons: (1) it is not as good an English translation as the Authorized Version and (2) its Calvinistic bias made it unacceptable to non-Calvinists,
5. Ultimately the King James Bible became "the" English Bible throughout the English-speaking world and the British empire (for over 300 years) because of its intrinsic excellence and faithfulness to the original Hebrew and Greek. All commentaries until the 20th century are based on this Bible, and none of the commentators every questioned its integrity.
6. Had Westcott & Hort and their co-conspirators in the 19th century not had a nefarious agenda to dethrone this Bible, and replace it with a corrupted bible (The Revised Version or RV), the KJV would have been honestly revised by 1881, with as few changes are were necessary to update it. That was the original plan of the Revision Committee of the Church of England, and it was sabotaged by W&H. For full details study The Revision Revised by Dean John William Burgon (an outstanding textual scholar in his own right).
2. William Tyndale was well-versed in both Hebrew and Greek, therefore he made a fresh translation which was largely used by the King James translators. Also this long before the Geneva Bible.
3. Darby was a fan of Westcott & Hort, and his translation slavishly follows their corrupt Greek text. He has nothing to do with the Geneva Bible.
4. Yes, the Geneva Bible was the preferred bible of the Puritans and the Calvinists. But in the end if fell into disuse for two reasons: (1) it is not as good an English translation as the Authorized Version and (2) its Calvinistic bias made it unacceptable to non-Calvinists,
5. Ultimately the King James Bible became "the" English Bible throughout the English-speaking world and the British empire (for over 300 years) because of its intrinsic excellence and faithfulness to the original Hebrew and Greek. All commentaries until the 20th century are based on this Bible, and none of the commentators every questioned its integrity.
6. Had Westcott & Hort and their co-conspirators in the 19th century not had a nefarious agenda to dethrone this Bible, and replace it with a corrupted bible (The Revised Version or RV), the KJV would have been honestly revised by 1881, with as few changes are were necessary to update it. That was the original plan of the Revision Committee of the Church of England, and it was sabotaged by W&H. For full details study The Revision Revised by Dean John William Burgon (an outstanding textual scholar in his own right).
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