RE: [DL] Becoming Blessed

[Arthur Nuwen <meriadoc424@yahoo.com>]

--- "Lute, David" <dlute@newbreed.com> wrote:
> Umm I think you all need some Bible history.
> 
> The first English Bible was a hand-written Bible by
> Wycliff in the late
> 1300's sometime forget when.
> The first Bible ever printed was printed by
> Guthenburg in the 1450's but
> that was in Latin.  
> The next big step was the Tyndale Bible and that was
> printed in English in
> the late 1520's.  
> 
> For America the first Bible printed in America was
> in 1663 but was in
> Algonquin.
> Then in 1782 The first English Bible was printed in
> America.
> In 1791 the first "Family Bible" was printed in
> America
> In 1841 the English Hexapla New Testament was
> printed and it had  in it the 
> 1380 Wycliff, 1534 Tyndale, 1539 Great, 1557 Geneva
> 1582 Rheims, and the
> 1611 King James version along with
> the original Greek at the top of every page.
> 
> So yes by the 1800's there were plenty of English
> Bible floating around.
> 
> If I find a link I will post it.
Large portions of the service were still in latin, so
the character will still need latin. Also, there were
no paperback bibles or paperback books of any kind in
DL since they weren't distributed widely till WWII.
(random note)

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