Translated 1557 – 1560

The English exiles at Geneva

Worth knowing

English Protestants who fled to Geneva during Mary's persecution, among them William Whittingham and Anthony Gilby.
Their Geneva Bible (1560) was the first English Bible with numbered verses throughout, and its notes explained the hard passages.
It was the Bible of Shakespeare, the Puritans and the Pilgrims. King James disliked its notes, which was one reason he commissioned a new translation in 1604.

In Scholar’s Dream, the English exiles at Geneva has one book

The Geneva BibleThe Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament (Geneva, 1560)BibleExegesis

Passages you can read in the game

Longer excerpts the Scriptorium holds on screen for a player to sit and read, word for word.

“…printed there two editions of the Hebrew Bible, and an edition of the Greek Testament, with the Vulgate and Erasmian versions, in 1551, which for the first time contains the versicular division of the text according to our present usage.”
Of Robert Estienne at Geneva, in Schaff, History of the Christian Church VIII §160 (1892), public domain. The Geneva Bible of 1560 was the first English Bible to use it.

from The Geneva Bible

“This is the so-called ‘Geneva Bible,’ or ‘Breeches Bible’ (from the rendering of Gen. 3:7), which was for a long time the most popular English version, and passed through about two hundred editions from 1560 to 1630.”
Schaff, History of the Christian Church VIII §160 (1892), public domain.

from The Geneva Bible

“Wherever we see the word of God sincerely preached and heard, wherever we see the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there we cannot have any doubt that the Church of God has some existence, since his promise cannot fail.”
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion IV.1.9 (trans. Beveridge, 1845), public domain.

from The Geneva Bible

Words The English exiles at Geneva’s books borrow from others

Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.

“…printed there two editions of the Hebrew Bible, and an edition of the Greek Testament, with the Vulgate and Erasmian versions, in 1551, which for the first time contains the versicular division of the text according to our present usage.”
Of Robert Estienne at Geneva, in Schaff, History of the Christian Church VIII §160 (1892), public domain. The Geneva Bible of 1560 was the first English Bible to use it.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Chapter and Verse

BibleArgument · power 92 · 100% accurate

In the gameNumbers down the margin, so a sentence has an address. Before this you cited a book and a chapter and hoped; after it, two people a thousand miles apart can turn to the same line and argue about the same words.

Learned byThe Geneva Bible (Lv 1)

“Beza published several editions of his Greek Testament in Geneva (1565–1598), which were chiefly used by King James’ translators.”
Schaff, History of the Christian Church VIII §160 (1892), public domain — the king would not have the Geneva notes and used the Geneva scholars’ text anyway.public domain

How it works in the game: the move The Marginal Note

ExegesisArgument · power 86 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe first English study Bible: three hundred thousand words of notes down the sides, explaining the hard verses to people with no minister to ask. King James loathed them and ordered his own translation to carry none.

Learned byThe Geneva Bible (Lv 48)

“This is the so-called ‘Geneva Bible,’ or ‘Breeches Bible’ (from the rendering of Gen. 3:7), which was for a long time the most popular English version, and passed through about two hundred editions from 1560 to 1630.”
Schaff, History of the Christian Church VIII §160 (1892), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Two Hundred Editions

HistoryArgument · power 88 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe Bible of the English-speaking world for seventy years — Shakespeare’s, Cromwell’s, the one that went on the Mayflower — and it was printed in a foreign city by refugees with no licence to print anything.

Learned byThe Geneva Bible (Lv 52)

“Wherever we see the word of God sincerely preached and heard, wherever we see the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there we cannot have any doubt that the Church of God has some existence, since his promise cannot fail.”
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion IV.1.9 (trans. Beveridge, 1845), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Where the Word Is Preached

EcclesiologyArgument · power 93 · 100% accurate

In the gameRefuses to produce a lineage, because a lineage was never the test. Look for preaching and sacraments; where you find them you have found the church, and where you do not, a list of bishops will not supply one.

Learned byThe Geneva Bible (Lv 56)

Strong against

×4Before Lutheran argument · why?

It does not produce a lineage. It changes what would count as one — and the church turns out to have been in a great many buildings that were flying his flag.

×3.5The Charge of Schisman argument · why?

Refuses to produce a lineage, because a lineage was never the test.

×2The Sentence of Constancean argument · why?

Where the Word is preached and heard, there is a church. That is the test, and a decree is not it.

×0.5The Indulgence Stallan argument · why?

A definition of the church, aimed at a market stall. True, and nowhere near it.

“…our conviction of the truth of Scripture must be derived from a higher source than human conjectures, Judgments, or reasons; namely, the secret testimony of the Spirit.”
Calvin, Institutes I.7.4 (trans. Beveridge, 1845), public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain

How it works in the game: the move The Secret Testimony

PresuppositionArgument · power 88 · 100% accurate

In the gameGrants that the evidences are good and refuses to rest on them. If your certainty that God has spoken is only as strong as your best argument, then it is exactly as unstable as your worst afternoon.

Learned byThe Geneva Bible (Lv 60)

Strong against

×2.5Before Lutheran argument · why?

He is asking you to rest your certainty on a list. There is a older place to rest it.

×2.5The Charge of Uncertaintyan argument · why?

Calvin asks the same question and answers it the same way.

×2The Canons of Trenta book · why?

Certainty was the real quarrel. Trent condemns assurance because it thinks assurance is presumption.

Who else was alive

The English exiles at Geneva against everyone else in the game.

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Boethius Boniface John of Damascus Daniel of Winchester Timothy I Alcuin of York Pope Leo III Eulogius of Córdoba Paul Alvaro of Córdoba Rimbert Humbert of Silva Candida Michael Cerularius Peter III of Antioch Anselm of Canterbury Ari Thorgilsson Ebo and Herbord Thomas Aquinas John Wyclif Lorenzo Valla Girolamo Savonarola Pope Paul III Martin Luther Miles Coverdale William Tyndale Emperor Charles V John Calvin Teresa of Ávila John Jewel The Council of Trent The English exiles at Geneva Hugo Grotius René Descartes John Owen Blaise Pascal John Bunyan Louis XIV of France Pierre Bayle Joseph Butler Jonathan Edwards Thomas Reid George Campbell William Paley John Henry Newman J. C. Ryle Friedrich Nietzsche James Orr B. B. Warfield Herman Bavinck W. R. Sorley James Denney J. Gresham Machen

Solid bar = firm dates · faded = approximate51 authors sit outside this window