Reformer's Bible

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Does anyone know where one might obtain a copy of the "Reformer's Bible" (1810)?

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, with short Notes by several learned and pious Reformers, as printed by Royal Authority at the time of the Reformation, with additional Notes and Dissertations, London, 1810. The notes in the Old Testament in this edition are taken from the Geneva Bible, the annotations of the New Testament from the Latin of Theodore Beza.

The notes on the Old Testament in this edition are reprinted from those appended to the English version of the Bible, published at Geneva by Coverdale, Sampson, and other reformers, who fled to that city during the reign of Queen Mary; whence their translation is generally known by the appellation of the Geneva Bible....The annotations on the New Testament are translated from the Latin of Theodore Beza. Although in this edition the orthography is modernised, and the style has in some few instances been improved, the editor (the Rev. Thomas Webster, B.D.) states that the utmost caution has been observed, that no alteration should be made in the sentiments of the reformers, whose "notes and illustrations" the late eminent Bishop Horsley, (no mean judge of biblical literature) has pronounced to be "very edifying, except that in many points they savour too much of Calvinism." The notes on the Apocalypse are selected by the editor from various commentators: he has also occasionally supplied arguments to the different books of the Old and New Testaments: his dissertations on which, though concise, are sufficiently comprehensive for those readers who have not leisure to consult more expensive commentaries. A few useful maps and tables accompany the work, which is further ornamented with some neatly-executed vignette engravings.

 

[jogri17]

the library here at the Université Laval has a copy.

 

[BertMulder]

Bibles, Annotated, and Bible Summaries

Also in 1810 there began to be published The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: the Text carefully printed from the most correct copies of the present authorized translation, including the marginal readings and parallel texts; with a Commentary, and Critical Notes, designed as a help to a better understanding of the Sacred Writings. By Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S., London, 1810-26. The author, a Wesleyan minister (see CLARKE, ADAM), attained a high reputation as a student of Oriental languages. The scope of the commentary is expressed in its own words: "In this work the whole of the text has been collated with the Hebrew and Greek originals, and all the ancient versions; the most difficult words 161

analyzed and explained; the most important readings in the Hebrew collections of Kennicott and De Rossi on the Old Testament, and in those of Mill, Wetstein, and Griesbach on the New, are noticed; the date of every transaction, as far as it has been ascertained by the best chronologers, is marked; the peculiar customs of the Jews and neighboring nations, so frequently alluded to by the prophets, evangelists, and apostles, are explained from the best Asiatic authorities; the great doctrines of the Law and Gospel of God are defined, illustrated, and defended; and the whole is applied to the important purposes of practical Christianity." A considerable popularity was achieved also by D'Oyly and Mant's commentary, The Holy Bible according to the Authorized Version, with Notes explanatory and practical, taken principally from the most eminent writers of the United Church of England and Ireland; together with appropriate introductions, tables, indexes, maps, and plans, prepared and arranged by the Rev. G. D'Oyly, B.D., and Rev. Richard Mant, D.D., Oxford and London, 1814, 3 vols., and various subsequent editions printed at Cambridge and Oxford. "This work, which was published under the sanction of the venerable Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, professes to communicate only the results of the critical inquiries of learned men, without giving a detailed exposition of the inquiries themselves. These results, however, are selected with great judgment, so that the reader who may consult them on difficult passages will rarely be disappointed. Of the labour attending this publication some idea may be formed, when it is stated that the works of upward of one hundred and sixty authors have been consulted for it, amounting to several hundred volumes. On the fundamental articles of Christian verity�the Deity and atonement of Jesus Christ, and the personality and offices of the Holy Spirit�this work may be pronounced to be a library of divinity" (Horne, ut sup., pp. 261-262).�A work of a similar character was The Holy Bible, newly translated from the original Hebrew, with Notes critical and explanatory. By John Bellamy, London, 1818-34. Orme considers it a strange hodgepodge of error, confidence, misrepresentation, and abuse of learned and valuable writers in all the departments of Biblical literature.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Thanks. Anyone else?

 

[nicnap]

I would love to find out more as well.

 

[merkitheology]

I found this but I don't think it is what you are looking for but it may be. This seller on E-bay is asking 500.00 US
HOLY BIBLE 1810 LEATHER 6 VOL COMPLETE SET RARE SCOTT T - eBay (item 160286374308 end time Oct-23-08 18:42:43 PDT)

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

I found this but I don't think it is what you are looking for but it may be. This seller on E-bay is asking 500.00 US
HOLY BIBLE 1810 LEATHER 6 VOL COMPLETE SET RARE SCOTT T - eBay (item 160286374308 end time Oct-23-08 18:42:43 PDT)

Perhaps you are thinking about this thread?

http://www.puritanboard.com/f78/thomas-scotts-commentary-bible-37841/