1599 Geneva Bible: "But It's for the Common Good!"

Luke 19:8 (i)And Zacchaeus stood forth, and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor: and if I have taken from any man by (ii)forged cavillation, I restore him fourfold.

i. The example of true repentance, is shown by the effect in one's life.
ii. By falsely accusing any man: and this agrees most fitly to the Tax masters: for commonly they have this trade among themselves that when they rob and spoil the commonwealth, they have nothing on their lips, but that it is for the profit of the commonwealth, and under that guise they play the thieves, and if men rebuke them and go about to point out their robbery, and their spoiling, the tax men but cry out that the commonwealth is hindered.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “The Melting Heart of the King"

2 Kings 22:19 But because thine heart did (i)melt, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same, to wit, that it should be destroyed and accursed, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I have also heard it, saith the Lord.
2 Kings 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy grave in (ii) peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. Thus they brought the king word again.

i. Meaning, that he did truly repent, unlike those who don't it is said that they harden their heart, Ps. 95:8.
ii. This shows us that the anger of God is ready to be released against the wicked, when God takes his servants out of this world.


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1599 Geneva Bible: “Don't Bow to Idols (even in pretense)"

1 Kings 5:18 Herein the Lord be (i)merciful unto thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon, to worship there, and leaneth on mine hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I do bow down, I say, in the house of Rimmon, the Lord be merciful unto thy servant in this point.
1 Kings 5:19 Unto whom he said, (ii)Go in peace. So he departed from him about half a day’s journey of ground.


i. He feels his conscience bothered about being present at an idol’s service, and therefore desires God to forgive him, lest others by his example might fall into idolatry: as for his own part he confesses that he will never serve any but the true God.
ii. The Prophet did not approve of his act, but after the custom of the time he bids him farewell.


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1599 Geneva Bible: “God Bows our Hearts"

1 Kings 8:58 That he may (i)bow our hearts unto him, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his laws, which he commanded our fathers.

i. Solomon concludes that man of himself is at heart an enemy unto God, and that all obedience to God's Law proceeds out of God's mere mercy


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1599 Geneva Bible: “Kill Your Self-Centered Motives"

Colossians 3:5 (i)Mortify therefore your (ii)members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, the inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:6 For the which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

i. Do not let not your dead nature motivate you any more, but let your living nature be motivate you. Now the force of nature is shown by one's motives and actions. Therefore let the affections of the flesh die in you, and let the opposite affections which are spiritual, live. And the author then lists a great long scroll of vices, and their opposite virtues.
ii. The motivations and desires that are in us, are in this place very properly called members, since the reason and the will of man is corrupted, he does use them as the body does its members.


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1599 Geneva Bible: “God will Circumcise Your Heart"

Deuteronomy 30:6 And the Lord thy God will (i) circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, that thou mayest love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

i. God will purge all thy wicked affections, and such a thing is not in our own power to do.



[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]