Thursday, February 19, 2009

Troy's Bible Babblings, Part 1


Well I haven't blogged in over a year. I know this has been a crippling blow to the blogging community. I mostly used the blog to chronicle trips i would take for my friends but since i have joined facebook i can now status and post pics for my travel from there this became no longer necessary for me. I have no great need to blog my day to day life, for one reason it isn't so interesting that strangers would read it, and secondly the people who i want to know about my day to day life are the people who are already engaged in it. So what use can i make of this blog if any?
I have been greatly encouraged and blessed of late reading the blog of my Dear friend Jenny who is making notes on her bible study. So yes there is an area where i can do that too. But i have another idea that excites me greatly. I have a great passion for the Geneva Bible. specifically the 1599 Geneva Bible and the recent Reprint of it done by the Tolle Lege Press with modern English spelling of words and typesetting. I am reading the Murry Cheyenne's yearly reading plan and I was encouraged to pick one of the tracts of reading and read a commentary or a study bible notes as i read along that tract. So what better choice was there for me than my own 1599 Geneva bible. This way after 2 years i will have read the Geneva translation twice and every Reformed footnote in the that bible at least once. so far i have read the notes of Acts, Romans and the 1st part of 1 Corinthians. What a blessing. Many of the notes just refer you to a other passage, some reword the text to give you a clearer understanding but many many of the notes are paragraphs explaining the Reformers' own understanding of the text. And by and large the notes are powerful and have greatly enlightened me. That said the wording is distinctly 16th century and sometimes can be a little hard to get the first time you read it (even for a guy like me who loves puritan writing and reads it often). So I decided to post some of the passages of the Geneva and a Troy-er-phrased version of the notes on my blog to hopefully help and bless others. I hope this will be a blessing to the 2 people who might come to my blog and skim it. I think this will be more profitable for others than just my own ramblings which i will do from time to time but will keep that to a minimum and mostly focus on the Reformers.
I hope Both of you are looking forward to this ans much as I AM! (probably not) Any who, here goes.
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Who's the other guy reading this? Or is it Jexsa?

Hideous-Rex said...

Jexsa, but only because i force her to.