New Additions in Literature of the Sacred – Translations of the Bible and the Quran – and The Present State of the Jews (Synagoga Judaica or Juden Schul)

Pentateuch and the First New Testament, printed by William Tyndale (1526) The prophete Ionas with an introduccion, translated by William Tyndale (1531) The Coverdale Bible (1535) The Great Bible (1539) The Geneva Bible (1557) The Bishops’ Bible (1568) The Douay–Rheims Bible, the Douay portion (1610) The…

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Corinthians 13 – “It is not the object discovered that matters, but the light that falls on it.” – Definitions of Love (Continued)

The OED on the etymology and usage of ‘charity’: Two early types of this word appear in English: (1) cariteð , -teþ , (2) charité ; these are adoptions respectively of Old Northern French caritedh , -tet(þ) , (later, and modern Picard carité ), and the somewhat later central Old French charité (earlier charitet ); which…

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Shibboleth

MW Shibboleth – from the Bible, via Milton (“Without Reprieve adjudg’d to death, For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.“) and Byron (“Nay, it is their brotherhood, Their Shibboleth–their Koran–Talmud–theirCabala–their best brick-work, wherewithal They build more—“, “Juan, who did not understand…

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