Revelation 22:19 again

A certain anonymous troll has attempted to remind me of what I already know, that there are several versions of the 1599 Geneva Study Bible. always those nasty charges of intellectual dishonesty. Yet I put up with him. I also advise this worthy that I am expecting an appology for such abuse and gratuitous insults, and not to expect any further attention until he does. In fact, he should consider himself banned.

I chose to quote the most error-ridden version, the StudyLight Version in its most flagrant editing of Scripture, the replacement of Revelation 22:19 with a footnote.
[ http://www.studylight.org/com/gsb/view.cgi?book=re&chapter=022 ]

Here’s the Crosswalk Version , which does the same thing:[ http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/GenevaStudyBible/gen.cgi?book=re&chapter=022 ]:

18 (9) For I protest unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book;
(9) The obtestation of John (which is the third part of the confirmation, as noted in verse six) joined with a curse of execration, to preserve the truth of this book entire and uncorrupted, in two verses.

I read the footnote to Revelation 22:18, unlike my troll. The phrase that says “to preserve the truth of this book entire and uncorrupted in two verses” states clearly that verses 18 & 19 were combined. We know better. Case Closed!

Let us look at the History of this 1599 Geneva Study Bible, the first version ever in the English Language. It was supplanted by the King James Version. Now, according to the advertisements, the Original 1599 Geneva Study Bible is back, restored, etc. after being restored. Think a minute. King James was considered morally bankrupt for his time, being considered partial to male courtiers and apparently having no use for the courtizans. Yet how could his preferred Bible prevail in the long run as it actually did? The answer is that the 1599 Geneva Study Bible had some obvious faults to it to make it fall into disuse. As this “Bible” has resurfaced, its faults are being rediscovered. The fact that I am being reminded by the trolls that there are so many different versions of the 1599 Geneva Study Bible tells me that the Calvinists had to do a lot of damage control in their time, editing their “Bible” each time they got caught en flagrant. Erasmus was caught once with his First Edition Bible being loaded with mistakes due to the need to beat the publication deadline; however, Erasmus cleaned up his act. Erasmus’s errors are historically treated as the errors in good faith that they were. However, the 1599 Geneva Study Bible never seems to get it right. Always and ever another edit or another version. This version of the Bible has exhausted its Good Will as a result.

Frankly, I don't think we should waste any more time on such a joke of a Bible as the 1599 geneva Study Bible. Time would be better spent on translating a Bible with a reputation, such as the Old Slavonic Bible of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, into English.

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UPDATE

Onesimus relates another of those Edited 1599 Geneva Study Bibles in http://www.reformedreader.org/gbn/en.htm , giving the history of this alleged bible. It appears that this particular Bible has been out of print for over 400 years. I wonder why? [smirk]. A quick look at http://www.reformedreader.org/gbn/gbnrevelation.htm shows that the same editing took place.

Calvinist Appologists suggets, rather belatedly, that the 1599 Geneva Study Bible merely quotes the Scripture that was commented upon in the regular Geneva Bible. To me, this is an admission that certain other Scripture has been DIMINISHED, as footnote 9 above shows WILLFULL INTENT to cover up Revelation 22:19, the very thing that Revelation 22:19 warned against. Revelation 22:18-19 is not a couplet but two separate and very related verses that occur next to each other. Indeed, WILLFULL INTENT occurs in the 1560 Edition of the Geneva Study Bible:

18 (9) For I protest unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book;

(9) The obtestation of John (which is the third part of the confirmation, as
noted in verse six) joined with a curse of execration, to preserve the truth of
this book entire and uncorrupted, in two verses.

19 And if any man shall diminish of the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy City, and from those things which are written in this book.

In the 1560, verse 19 is indeed present, but so is footnote #9. which ignores verse 18 [Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. -The Wizard of Oz movie]. Clearly, the early Calvinists, going back to John Calvin himself who died in 1564 and was alive at the time of footnote #9, had been planning to marginalize Revelation 22:19 for quite some time.

The problem is that there are so many versions of the Geneva Bibles, and I keep running into other sleightly different versions of them each time I google. The only explanation that I have for a version of the Bible to have so many different subversions, yet dissapear for 100 years is that what most likely happened in the 16th and 17th Centuries is that every time a non-Calvinist Theologian would catch one of these Calvinist edits, that a new version of the Geneva Study Bible would come out to "correct" the error. Eventually, as the Calvinists ran out of credibility, they changed their tactics and abandonned the enterprise. The Calvinists should have left this "bible" in the obscurity in which it rightfully languished instead of reawakening this Frankenstein Monster.

In view of this FRAUD, the use of the Geneva Bible on this blog shall be restricted to quoting its errors, and not in any authoritative sense, just as the lies of the Devil have been quoted in Scripture. The official Bible for this blog is the EOB, though he Jerusalem Bible, the Septuagint, and the Amplified Bible are acceptable.