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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 426
Early Bibles
The Peshitto Version written in Syriac (150 A.D.). Around 350 copies are known to still
exist;
The Waldensian Italic Version written in Latin (157 A.D.). The Waldensian Church still
exists in Italy and they still have their Bible;
The Gallic Bible from the Church of Southern France (177 A.D.);
The Gothic Version (350 A.D.);
The Old Syriac Bible (400 A.D.);
The Armenian Bible (400 A.D.). There are 1244 copies of this version still in existence;
The Palestinian Syriac (450 A.D.);
Bibles of The Reformation
Luther’s German Bible (1522);
William Tyndale’s Bible (1534);
The French Bible of Oliveton (1535);
Coverdale Bible (1535);
Taverner’s Bible (1539);
Great Bible (1539);
Stephen’s Bible (1546);
Geneva Bible (1560);
Bishop’s Bible (1568);
Spanish Version (1569);
The Czech Bible (1602);
The Italian Bible of Diodati (1606); and
King James Version (1611).
1348
The versions, although not written in the original Greek, are some of the oldest Bible
manuscripts in existence. Approximately 18,000 version manuscripts are in existence today. The
versions serve to document that the earliest Church fathers and those of the reformation stood in
agreement that the Received Text was the authentic uncorrupted word of God. The earliest
versions are much older than the oldest manuscripts of the Received Greek Text and serve to
authenticate these texts since they are in agreement.
1349
John Burgon stated concerning the
versions:
I suppose it may be laid down that an ancient Version outweighs any
single Codex, ancient or modern, which can be named: the reason being, that it is
scarcely credible that a Version - the Peshitto, for example, an Egyptian or the
Gothic - can have been executed from a single exemplar (copy).
A second reason for the value of ancient versions is in their ability to
exhibit a text which antedates the oldest Greek manuscripts. Readings which are
challenged in the Authorized Version for their non-existence in the 'two most
ancient authorities' (Codex Sinaiticus or A; and Codex Vaticanus, or B,
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