#Miles Coverdale

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Wonderful Miles Coverdale, who buried Katherine Paar and translated the Psalms for the Book of Common Prayer.

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Brrrrr what a cold week it has been or was it just because I was up early in the morning for the journey to the hospital? Whatever the reason, I don’t like it! . However, this morning the sun is shining, I was thinking of heading out early for a walk BUT a quick check of Météo informed me that it is 1c out there and that the highest temperature for today is 5c. Think I will just snuggle up under a blanket and look at the sunshine through the window 😂.

So the first week of treatment is over and done with, just another two and a half weeks to go

I have enjoyed the journey to Troyes, catching sight of the grues (cranes) as they continued on their migration. One day there were even cigognes (storks) feeding in a field.

Last Sunday was a gorgeous day and I took advantage of it with a lovely walk. The sun shone and it was quite warm (10c). Perfect for the photos by the river and also around town.

Have I been resting up this week? Well most afternoons, yes, but on a morning when I returned from hospital I have been out shopping, rearranging appointments and preparing and cooking meals. My cleaner hasn’t been 😩 but she is coming for two hours next week.

Thanks to all my family and friends ( from all around the world) who have been sending love during this time. Your support has helped me remain positive.

Pauline messaged to say she is feeling better and so we will meet up (at some point).

I visited my “sisters” at the knitting workshop as I had to take the knitted items ready for the sale. One pair of fingerless gloves were snapped up straight away!

Monique has still been coughing after her bout of bronchitis, she was going to visit me yesterday but messaged on Friday to say her neighbour (who she has been helping because they were unwell) has been taken to hospital with Covid!. So fearful that she may be positive or even a carrier, decided not to put me at risk.

Anie came to see me on Tuesday evening bearing homemade gifts. She told me she is going to stay with her son in Indonesia for Xmas. She will be home in time for her birthday on the 19 January, so I think I will ask her for lunch that day and give her birthday and Xmas presents together.

I bought two Xmas cactus, one which looks white or cream and the other a magenta colour. I thought I would give Anie the magenta coloured one as part of her Xmas present. Both plants had lots of buds on but the magenta one has some flowers very close to opening, I may end up keeping both plants for myself 😂.

An English friend (lives in France) is celebrating her birthday today 🥳🥳. I hope she likes the present I sent her. It is difficult to know what to buy. I saw two things I would have sent her so hopefully the second item will do for next years birthday.

As we hurtle towards Xmas I have been snapping up boxes of chocolates, biscuits, stollen and pates de fruits, these are for the nurses who have visited me at home since June, the taxi companies who have coped with my French and sorted vehicles for me, the cleaner (who has done a great job) and my friends. I may need to go and buy some more but once these are wrapped I will be in a better position to see who else I need presents for. I would like to think that I can get them all wrapped up this afternoon.

Now it’s time for my choice of records, this is for “The Trainee Solicitor” who I think is “guardian” of my CD by this artist 😉. The song is from 2005 and it’s “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter.

The next record dates back to 1982 but the more famous version is the re-worked 1987 hit, it is “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake. I like to include artists local to where I lived in the UK and David Coverdale was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a mere three miles from where I lived.

“The Daddy” was due to be THE photographer for Scarborough AFC match yesterday, unfortunately he had tummy troubles Friday into Saturday morning and was unable to attend. I hope you are feeling better this morning.

“The Trainee Solicitor” and “The Ex-Graduate” had a great night on Thursday evening at Luke Combs UK but today they are in need of cheering up, so it’s off for breakfast and hopefully a read of the blog which should cheer them both up 😉.

I really want to apologise to the eagle eyed amongst you who may have noticed that I have listed “The Letter” by the Box Tops twice! Well it is a great song and it’s been around for 56 years 😱 really that long!

Now it’s time for me to bid you all adieu. Have a great week until I “see” you again next week.

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  Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 60 THE EARTHLY KINGDOM WILL APPEAR! ISAIAH 2:2 It is so good to be back. We’ve covered a lot of miles the last couple of weeks, but nevertheless it’s always good to be back in Oklahoma and carry forth and again have an opportunity to reach so many. Our audience is growing week by week; thanks to your prayers, your letters, and your financial help. We just trust the Lord will continue to bless every part of it. Okay, we’re going to come right back where we left off in our study in Isaiah. We’re going to look at chapter 2 verse 2, but we might as well read verse 1, as well. Isaiah 2:1 "The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem." Now, the key word there is ‘concerning’. So, who is Isaiah really addressing? Well, the southern half of the kingdom which is split at this time, but nevertheless as we’ve made note in our previous four programs, Isaiah is predominately prophesying to the southern kingdom of Judah, but he also reaches across up to the northern kingdom, so it really implies the whole house of Israel. Now, I just had a thought. I haven’t done this before, but I’m going to read something, and I’m going to read it because I don’t think I can do it justice by just quoting it. This is a quote by Miles Coverdale, way back in the 1500’s, probably shortly after Martin Luther came out of Roman Catholicism. Now, I’m going to read it in the Old English as it’s printed here. "It shall greatly help ye to understand Scripture if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom, with what words, where, at what time, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after." Now, that’s pretty much in a lengthy term what I’ve always been expressing, that whenever you read the Scripture you have to determine – who’s writing it? What are the circumstances? Who’s it written to? Now, most of Christendom has failed to do 90% of this, and they have just assumed that once Israel faded off the scene after 70 AD all of Scripture became written to the "Church." (Quote unquote). Now, I hadn’t intended to do this; I was going to jump right into verse 2, but after we’ve read verse 2 I’m going to have to give some background. Isaiah 2:2a "And it shall come to pass…" Now, those of you who have been in my Tahlequah class, this is old hat to you, but I have constantly reminded that class that we have two concepts here. A promise – ‘it shall come to pass.’ What will? A prophecy! So, all your Old Testament prophecies are given with the promise that it’s going to happen. If it doesn’t, we might as well throw this Book away and go home and forget anything that was ever said in it. But it IS going to happen. All right, so what is? Isaiah 2:2b "…in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house…." Now, the word mountain here is typically referring to a kingdom. It’s used that way throughout the Old Testament, a mountain in Scripture, if not otherwise stated, is a kingdom. Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, (all other kingdoms) and it shall be exalted above the hills; (even smaller kingdoms) and (it’s going to be so great, it’s going to be so world encompassing that) all nations shall flow unto it." Not just Israel, but every nation on the planet is going to literally find Jerusalem as the capital of everything. All right now, what this amounts to is the promise of what we’ve always referred to as a King and a Kingdom. The two go hand in hand throughout all of Scripture, but like I said, I just suddenly got the thought that so many of our letters and our phone calls are from people who have never heard of anything like this. They have never heard of an earthly Kingdom - a King and a Kingdom, a political system, a government? Yes. But it’s not going to be like any other kingdom that has every transpired. It’s going to be a heavenly Kingdom. It’s literally going to be Heaven on the earth.

This means, that the curse is going to have to be lifted. You can’t have Heaven in the midst of the curse. Satan is going to have to be removed from the scene. The earth is going to have to be regenerated. It’ll have to be made like it was at the beginning, and it will be. All of Scripture declares that. But, now I’ve got to give you the reason that most of Christendom has never heard it. In fact, I had a phone call just this morning, and I guess that all feeds into my thinking then to digress from what I was going to do. A lady called this morning and she had been to her pastor to ask about the 144,000 in the book of Revelation. What do you suppose his answer was? We don’t pay any attention to the book of Revelation, that’s all past. That was all finished in the first century. Well, yes, that’s typical of most of Christendom. I’m going to give you the background. We did it I think, way back in one of our earliest programs, but only a few people, percentage-wise, have ever seen that. I’m going to give you, in this first half hour, just a brief background of how did this concept ever come about; that there is no Kingdom, there is no King, there is nothing associated with the book of Revelation. Well, it’s simply because in 315 AD, now you know I’m a stickler for history. You can’t really comprehend this Book unless you know history, and in 315 AD we had a Roman emperor by the name of Constantine, after which Constantinople was named. Now, Constantine’s mother, Queen Helene, became a believer. So she prevailed upon her son, the Emperor, to take the onus off of Christianity, the persecution and the pressuring of it, and declare it by an emperor’s decree to be the official religion of the Roman Empire. Now, that sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, what did it do? It opened the church then to the masses, who literally became church members without benefit of any spiritual rebirth.It was just simply ‘the thing to do’ to become a Christian. Well, there was such a mass movement of the population of the Roman Empire that a church father back in Jerusalem, by the name of Origen (‘O-r-i-g-e-n’. Some pronounce it ‘O-re-gen.’ I pronounce it ‘Or-i-gen.’), came to the conclusion that since the Jews had rejected their Messiah and crucified Him that God, in His wrath against them, not only destroyed their Temple and destroyed their city, but He, for all practical purposes, destroyed the Nation of Israel. Well, He didn’t destroy them, He merely disbursed them. He sent them into every nation in the then known world. But, you see, by the end of 300 years, the world had just about treated the Jew as ‘nothing’, just dirt under their feet. They were persecuted; they were hated. So, Origen came to this conclusion that since God had now destroyed the Nation of Israel, all of the Old Testament promises were now given to ‘the church.’ There are some now, in our present times, who refer to it as ‘replacement theology,’ which is a very descriptive term. But I’ve always called it ‘Amillennialism’. Another term is ‘Preterism.’ They all three mean the same thing. They maintain that with the demise of Israel, the destruction of the city and the temple, that God had now turned all of the prophecy promises over to the church. Well, you see, following that line of teaching then, Augustine, who was a bishop in North Africa, the Bishop of Hippo, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, picked up on Origen’s teaching that indeed God was all through with Israel, and that He would just let the Jews slip into a disappearance act. So, he began to promote this concept that since there was no prophecy left to be fulfilled, (how can there be without Israel?) consequently there can be no end-time events. So, their thinking was that the church will keep going. Some kind of intimated that the church would actually take control of the world and ‘reconstructionism’ is the term for that, and that by force Christianity could literally overtake the planet. Well, none of that is according to the Book!

So, a lot of these other false ideas came in, but primarily that since the Jew is completely out of the picture there can be no end-time events. Well, that follows. If you haven’t got Israel in the land where God can judge her and deal with her in what we call the Tribulation, then that knocks that out. Well, if there’s no Tribulation, there’s no Second Coming. If there’s no Second Coming, there’s no Thousand-Year Reign of Christ, so they wiped all that off the slate. See, that’s what this lady’s pastor told her just this morning; we don’t have anything to do with the book of Revelation because that was all fulfilled in the first century. Well, now what happened in the first century? Seventy AD the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and sent the Jews into dispersion. Well, that’s what they’re all hanging on to, and most Roman Catholics have never heard anything different than that. Of course, when Martin Luther had the awakening that ‘the just shall live by Faith’ and withdrew from Catholicism, he took this concept with him. He never for a moment changed the amillennial view. So, you’ll find that all the reformers followed Luther in that concept. Consequently, as you look at most of your major Protestant denominations today, they, like the Roman Catholics, have never heard one word about this earthly kingdom. It’s a whole new concept to them. Then this old ‘rancher’ comes along and opens up all this. Some of them, of course, probably think that’s just, you know some crazy guy’s idea. But, all I maintain is that God never gave any hint that Israel would disappear; quite the opposite. Jeremiah 31:35-36 "Thus saith the LORD which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereofroar; The LORD of hosts is his name; 36. If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever." He makes the statement that the "sun will fall out of its position, the stars and the moon will fall out of their orbit before Israel stops being a nation." So, you see, these people have been, however you want to put it, they’ve been beating a dead horse so to speak, in trumpeting that there are no end-time events when this Book says, Isaiah 2:2a "And it shall come to pass…" Now, whenever they take away all these prophetic things, then they’re telling me, they’ll never admit it, but they’re telling me that God lied. Because when God says, "it will come to pass" and they say it won’t, somebody’s lying, and I don’t think it’s God! So, where are we? Yes, these prophecies are still valid. Yes, there is going to be an earthy kingdom over which Christ is going to rule and reign for a thousand years. Now, most of the Old Testament, only one exception that I can find, never mentions the time element. That’s left for the book of Revelation, but there is a hint in the book of Hosea, and we’ll come to it at a later time. Anyway, this is the first thing I want to establish. If you happen to be in a denomination where you’ve never heard this earthly kingdom taught, don’t think that I’m way out in left field concocting this, because you see…now, I’m going to have you turn with me to Daniel. I think the Lord purposely waited until the last hundred years to open up this whole concept again of Biblical prophecy, because all the rest of the time it was moot. They weren’t about to be in the end-time scenario; it didn’t make any difference if they understood end-time prophecy, because God knew it wasn’t going to happen until now. But now, you see, in the last hundred years, as I have taught in seminars and so forth, everything that’s been happening in the world has now begun to set the stage for these final days’ events. The increase in technology – well, it didn’t come just all at once. In the latter part of the 1800’s you had the simple inventions of the telephone and the telegraph, which compared to today was about as simple as you can get.

You had the invention of the steam engine, which led to the invention of the internal combustion engine, which led to the automobile. But see, all those things just started in the last part of the 1800’s. Well, the same way with the scenario in the Middle East. God purposely kept the land of Israel desolate, for about 1900 years, saving it for the nation of Israel to return to it at the appropriate time. It was devoid of any real population; devoid of any production of any kind. How did He do it? He stopped the rain. He increased the earthquakes. So, for 1900 years the Middle East was pretty much kept in turmoil with earthquakes. Malaria ran rampant in Israel because the Hula Valley swamps were loaded with mosquitoes. Well, all of those things kept the Middle East desolate for 1900 years. Then all of a sudden things began to happen. They drained the Hula Valley swamps and they licked malaria. The earthquakes stopped - miraculously. There hasn’t been a major earthquake since 1900, until the one a few weeks ago. It was the first major one they’ve had. Then the rains began to return. They learned how to irrigate and production began to increase. Well, all of those things have happened since 1900, which gave rise to the return of the Jew to their homeland. Now, that wasn’t an accident, and that too started about 1900. It wasn’t the Jews’ idea; it was the Arab world that was forcing them out, persecuting them, and killing them. So finally, the Jews had no place to go but back to their ancient homeland. When they got to their ancient homeland what did they do? Start getting it back into production. As soon as they get it into production, who comes in to get their jobs? Well, the Arab world. So, the two things come together. Well, all of these things have given rise, now, in our relatively memorable time that God is getting everything set for the last days. Well, there wasn’t any need to know that 200 years ago; they weren’t in the last days. All right, now turn with me to Daniel chapter 12 where God tells Daniel an amazing thing. Daniel, in the first three verses of that chapter, deals with the resurrection of the Old Testament saints. We’ll look at that another time, but now in verse 4. Daniel 12:4a "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end…": So you see, all of Daniel’s prophecies were moot for almost 1900 years because they weren’t about to happen for a long time, and God knew that, and by the time of the end, here we have our first indication of a change in modus operandi of the world. Daniel 12:4b "…many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Now, that’s just a little indication of the change of the world’s population. Now, I think I made the statement on the program a long time ago, that you could have taken a family from almost anyplace on the planet, transferred them to another place on the planet, and they would not have suffered culture shock, until after the middle 1800’s. Now, just think about it. Until the middle 1800’s most of the world’s population still carried their water from creeks or wells or so forth. They cooked with fire, and they did everything the hard way. Their clothes were homespun, and their food was homemade. Then all of a sudden what happened? Well, the western world began to enjoy the advance in technology. Then your city people were enjoying all the good things of life, and you transport them out into a certain area of Africa or India – culture shock! But until that time, everybody pretty much operated the same way. So, here is an indication that there’s going to be a change in the knowledge and in the travel practices as we approach the end-time. All right, now as you come a little further in chapter 12, you come all the way down to verse 8, and this is another amazing statement, where Daniel now responds to the Lord by saying, Daniel 12:8 "And I heard but I (what?) understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? That is, all these prophecies that he had been writing throughout the book of Daniel.

Now, look at the Lord’s answer – go out and preach it Daniel? Publish it? No; quite the opposite. Daniel 12:9 "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words (that is what he has just written in these twelve chapters) are closed up and sealed (but what’s the next word?) till the time of the end." So, there would come a time when these prophecies would be understood. When was it? It was after about 1900. So, we can look back now and see that Amillennialism, Preterism, or Replacement Theology, whatever you call it, really didn’t matter that much, because there was no understanding of end-time prophecy anyway. But once we got past 1900 the pieces started to fall into place and Bible scholars could put together the fact that we’re going to have the rise of a revived Roman Empire. They began to foretell that the Jews would be going back to their homeland. That had been unheard of! They began to have prophecy conferences teaching these whole concepts; that, along with the return of the Jew to Israel, it would bring about the final seven years of Tribulation that Daniel prophesied. That would bring about the Second Coming of Christ, which all the Old Testament referred to one way or another. All of these things start falling into place. So now, absolutely, it’s important that we study prophecy. I don’t agree it should be the only thing we study. Prophecy alone will not bring salvation to the lost billions, but if it will sort of whet their appetite to get into the Word, and perhaps by getting into the Word find salvation, then it’s worth it. But, you see, prophecy for the sake of prophecy is not going to bring salvation to the multitudes of people that need to hear it. But, for those of us now who believe, it’s so encouraging to know that all these Old Testament promises and prophecies – they’re going to happen. They are going to happen because this Word says they will! I don’t care what the theologians say, I don’t care how many hundreds of years they’ve said it, I can stand here without apology and I’ll say, "We are seeing things come together so fast today, how can anybody refuse it?’ Now, I was reading one of these guys. I read them, don’t think I don’t know what they’re spitting out. One of them I read here awhile back made this kind of a statement: "The Jews in the world today aren’t Jews at all. The real Jew disappeared shortly after 70 AD. These people that claim to be Jews came out of the steps of southern Russian, north of the Black Sea, the Czars and so forth and they simply saw all of this Jewish material laying around and they saw those empty synagogues and so they just sort of usurped them and formed their own religion around it and called themselves Jews." Well, you know, I got to bed that night and I got to thinking, who in the world would be crazy enough to claim to be a Jew and come under all the suffering that the Jews suffer if there’s no real need for it? Ridiculous! The Jews suffer because they’re Jews. They can understand that that’s their reason for suffering. I can show you plainly, from the very promises made to Abraham, that through this one nation of people would come forth, not only the Word of God, but the Messiah, the Redeemer, the Savior of the whole world would come through this one little nation of people. So, what does Old Satan think? "Well, I’m going to show God a thing or two. I’m going to destroy that nation before He can use them." But, you see, he’s never quite succeeded. So, even today, I’m constantly reminding people wherever I go, don’t wonder why the whole world is against Israel over there today. Don’t wonder why the Palestinian and the Arab world hate them so, that’s Satan’s work. Satan is still convinced that if he can destroy the nation of Israel, he can destroy this Book. That’s his hope. But, I’ve got news for him; it’s not going to happen. God is going to spare the Jew, the nation of Israel, so that they will be there for these end-time results that are coming. So, I’ve made almost a complete study on this.

What is the proof that this is the Word of God alone, of all religious writings? BECAUSE OF THE JEW! The Jew is the promised fulfillment that this Book is true. Now, I’ve got time enough. I’m going to go back and show you. Go back to Deuteronomy chapter 30. We’ve done this before, but some things bear repeating, and this just says it all. This, remember, is written 3500 years ago. Moses is writing Deuteronomy chapter 30 at about 1500 BC. This isn’t gobbledy gook. This doesn’t take a rocket science education. This is plain simple language. Deuteronomy 30:1 "It shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, (which are listed in 28 and 29) which (God says) I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee." Now, do you see what that says? Moses is prophesying; the day is coming when the Jews will be scattered into every nation under heaven. Did it happen? Yes! It’s proven, in every nation, none excepted. But, now look at the promise in verse 2, that after they’ve been scattered into every nation under heaven: Deuteronomy 30:2-3 "And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul: 3. That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee." Now, they can’t return unto the Lord their God until they return to where? The homeland. That’s where they have to go. We’ve seen it in our lifetime; since 1900. Some of you almost go back that far. But anyway, we’ve seen the return of the Jew to the homeland; exactly as it was promised 1500 years before Christ. How can anybody deny that that is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, that the nation of Israel would be scattered first into every nation but at the point leading up to the end-time they would return, and they are exactly where God intends them to be, and God is never a day late.

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Milestone Monday, Part 1

On this day, October 4 in 1535, the Coverdale Bible was printed, the first complete English translation of the entire Bible with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.  Four years later, Coverdale would oversee the publishing of the Great Bible, the first English-language Bible to be authorized by the English monarch Henry VIII.

To mark this milestone we present illustrations from The Book of Psalms from the Version of Miles Coverdale as Published in the "Great Bible" of 1539, printed in an edition of 875 copies at the Alcuin Press and published in London by the Haymarket Press in 1930. Curiously, this production is illustrated with eight color facsimiles of illuminations from a 14th-entury English manuscript known as Queen Mary's Psalter (British Library, Royal MS 2 B.vii). Little is known of its history until it came into the possession of Mary I of England in 1553. Shown here from top to bottom:

1.) Frontispiece: The Tree of Jesse. 2.) A portion of the title page. 3.) Page spread showing the wood-engraved initials for Psalms 112-115. 4.) The Nativity. Psalm 1: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly." The initial shows King David playing the harp, inspired by the Holy Spirit. 5.) The Adoration of the Magi. Psalm 27: "The Lord is my light and my salvation." The initial shows David pointing to his eye with God above. The little scene below depicts a group of weasels. 6.) The three Magi warned in a dream to flee from Herod. Psalm 39: "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not with my tongue." The initial shows David kneeling pointing to his tongue. A little jousting scene is depicted below. 7.) The young Jesus presented at the Temple by Mary. Psalm 53: "The fool has said in his heart." The initial shows King David admonishing a fool. A stag hunt is depicted below. 8.) The Wedding at Cana. Psalm 69: "Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul." The initial shows Jonah being cast into the sea and then being cast up by the great fish. Below is a battle of two grotesques. 9.) The Baptism of Jesus. Psalm 81: "Sing we merrily unto God our strength." The initial shows David playing the bells. Below is a fight between a unicorn and a lion. 10.) Three monks singing at a lectern. Psalm 98: Cantate Domino canticum novum "Sing unto the Lord a new song." Below is depicted the miracle of the Virgin to a man of Viviers.

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Henry VIII’s copy of Miles Coverdale’s translation of the books of Solomon with his annotations. British Library; C.25.b.4(1), f. 4v. Printed by Edward Whitchurch in c.1545 and formerly kept in the Upper Library at Westminster Palace.

In February 1542, Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was executed in the Tower of London. Details of her pre-marital relationship with Francis Dereham and alleged adulterous relationship with Thomas Culpepper, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, had ultimately come to light, annihilating Henry VIII’s affections for her. Cast as an improper and unfaithful queen, she was deprived of her position and condemned to death. Her remains were laid to rest in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula where Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, Katherine’s cousin and fellow beheaded queen, was also consigned to the grave.

In July 1543 Henry has married again. this time to the conscientious twice-married Katherine Parr. The inscriptions made by Henry in his copy of the translated books of Solomon date to the time of his final marriage. Here the text characterizes the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ woman. On the bottom of the page in the margin, Henry has written ‘for wyfves’, drawing attention to the paragraph underlining the need for a husband and wife to not be ‘straungers’. ‘…be glad wyth the wyfe of thy youth’, the book instructs which may seem a strange thing for Henry to mark out given he was clearly not content with the majority of his initial marriages. But he concluded his union with Parr was only his second legitimate match and perceives it as a comfortable union that will last.

At the top of the page, Henry has bracketed various lines and written ‘bene’ – ‘good’ – on the edge. The lines refer to the arbitrary woman who has the ‘lyppes of a harlot’ but is absolute as ‘bytter as wormewode, & as sharpe as a two-edged sweard’. This woman ’regardeth not the path of lyfe’, but is concerned purely with her amusement and fraudulent paths. The text advises men to ‘kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye the dores of hyr house’. Was Henry supposing here of his former, dubious wife? The text provides a bewitching understanding of Henry’s decency, tarnished, as common, with a deep sense of dissembling and self-righteousness.

[rubensmuse]

say what you will about hawthorne's writing but you have to admit there is nothing more relatably funny than miles coverdale deciding he's going to better himself by becoming a farmer only to become IMMEDIATELY bedridden-level sick for like five months

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Today in Christian History

Today is Sunday, January 20th, the 20th day of 2019. There are 345 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

250: Death of Fabian, bishop of Rome, under the persecution of Emperor Decius.

473: Death of Euthymius the Great in the desert northeast of Jerusalem. He had been an abbot in Palestine and a hermit noted for his holiness.

1659: Death in London of English translator Miles Coverdale, who produced the first complete printed English-language Bible.

1773: Thomas Charles, who will become a leader of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, converts to Christianity while listening to Daniel Rowland preach.

1862: Death at Hoddesdon, Herts, England, of hymnwriter Harriet Auber, who had led a quiet and contented life, publishing only one volume, The Spirit of the Psalms. Many of her hymns will appear in hymnbooks, especially an epiphany hymn that begins "Bright was the guiding star that led..."

1870: Clara Swain arrives at Bareilly, India, and begins medical mission work the same day.

1881: In 1875 Fredrik Franson, an evangelist among Minnesota's Swedish immigrants and author of Mormonism Unveiled and a treatise on church growth, is ordained by the Free Church at Phelps Center.

1895: Death in South Euclid, Ohio, of Johann Adam Ernst, early pioneer pastor of the Missouri Synod in Canada.

1952: Roman Catholic bishop Anton Vouk is ambushed, doused with gasoline in Yugoslavia, and set on fire, probably by government hit men. By quick action he manages to save his own life but will suffer from the injuries his remaining years.

[frimleyblogger]

The Streets Of London – Part Eighty Nine

The Streets Of London – Part Eighty Nine

Austin Friars, EC2

As you look northwards, the second tine of the fork that makes up the junction where Throgmorton Street and Old Broad Street meet is Austin Friars. It is a curiously shaped thoroughfare which works its way around the Dutch church northwards before joining London Wall via Austin Friars Passage.

There is no mystery in the origin of its name, taking it from the Augustinian…

[vaspider]

If you don't mind me asking, what's wrong with the KJV? That is to say, I've been operating on the assumption that it was translated unfaithfully for quite a bit now, but I don't know the details.

I was raised Baptist, and my parents and their church live and die by it, so I'd like to know if you have the time to spare to go into detail.

The very short version is that the KJV was translated to conform to the ideals of the Protestant church. It was translated to "fix" problems with earlier translations which were not seen as "appropriate" to the ideals of the Church. (Miles Coverdale's translation was what people were using and it was based off of a translation by William Tyndale, who was executed for translating the Bible into English. Wild shit.)

So basically they decided the shape they wanted their religion to be and translated the Bible to fit that rather than translating the books as faithfully and contextually as possible and changing the religion to fit the actual foundational book.

[queenlucythevaliant]

On this day (Oct 4) in 1535, Miles Coverdale produced the first ever printed English Bible. The translation incorporated a great deal of Tyndale's work, as well as Coverdale's own translations from the German text and the Vulgate.

[etriva]

There isn't a funeral.

Chris is glad that the government makes that decision for him. His first impulse--that his dad was a piece of shit and that Chris should dump his cremated remains down a fucking sewer--felt good but probably wasn't right, but he also wasn't sure what the right thing was. Lucky for him, it turns out that there's a protocol for the death of a supervillain, especially one with a group of heavily-armed followers who might turn up to a public funeral or just generally react poorly and violently to the death of their leader. August Smith's death is swept under the rug the same as every other body they left at Coverdale, and the world moves on quietly without him.

Chris knows it's for the best.

Still, he and Eagly and Adrian end up pulled off along the roadside on 394N. The pressure-washing crew and the intervening weeks of weather hadn't quite managed to remove all the hillbilly nazi blood from the roadway, although it's really only obvious if you're looking for it. He'd bought one of those roadside memorials, a wooden stake with a wreath of bright pink flowers on it, and he and Adrian extract it from the trunk and hammer it into the ground on the gravel shoulder.

Chris plants his feet and clears his throat. "I have something to say about my dad."

"I have some things to say about your dad," Adrian says, under his breath but still loud enough that Chris can hear. Eagly squawks quietly too, and it's hard for Chris not to read that as an agreement.

Chris clears his throat again. He makes eye contact with the ghost of his dad, who he sees standing on the other side of the road. "My dad... My dad was an awful person. He was an asshole. He was a racist, sexist d-bag. He killed my brother by making us fight each other for money. He fucked me up. He was a supervillain, and I guess since he tried to kill me specifically that makes him part of my coterie? He hated who I was. He hated who I'd become and who I want to be. And, honestly? Fuck him." He stares hard at the ghost. "Fuck you, Dad. Fuck you and your white power bullshit. The Deep State has your body now, and I hope whatever else of you there was has gone to hell."

He glances over at Adrian and Eagly now. "Anybody else want to say anything?"

Adrian shrugs, obviously both amused and impressed. "I mean, it seems like you've covered it." That doesn't stop him from stepping forward to where Chris is standing, though, and saying a few words of his own. "Adebayo once told me that your garbage dad would only ever hold you back. He was a monster, and I'm glad he's finally dead. You deserve it."

Chris squints at Adrian for a second. He knows he ought to be concerned about some of that, but now is probably not the time. Maybe later. Maybe never--his dad is dead, and that's what matters.

Instead, he turns to his BFF. "Eagly?"

Eagly takes flight, soaring away and landing about a quarter-mile down the road on some roadkill they'd passed while driving up. It's not surprising, but Chris can't help but be a little disappointed by Eagly's lack of support.

Adrian nudges him. "You ready for the last part?"

Chris is ready for the last part. Adrian returns to the trunk and gets out the can of gasoline. He offers it to Chris, who douses the roadside memorial and then tosses a match onto it. It goes up in a very satisfying burst of flame, the pink petals of the bouquet curling and blackening in the heat. He steps back next to Adrian to watch it burn.

"Fuck that guy!" Adrian shouts.

"Fuck that guy," Chris echoes.

They stand quietly for a minute. Adrian looks over at him. "You okay?"

Chris searches for an answer to that, comes up empty. He shrugs helplessly as he tries to blink back the tears blurring his vision. August Smith may have been a monster, but he was still Chris's dad.

"There, there," Adrian says quietly, gently and clumsily patting Chris's arm. "Nice touching. We are having some nice touching."

Chris sobs a laugh. He's not wrong; it is nice. He wipes his eyes with the back of his hand and sways a little closer to Adrian.

They lure Eagly back to the car with a bag of Doritos and leave the memorial burning in the rearview mirror. When Chris looks, his dad is in the rearview too.

He hopes with all his heart that's where his dad stays.

[thetudorslovers]

"Catherine remained in a state of delirium throughout 3 and 4 September. In spite of her anger towards her husband at the memory of his conduct with Elizabeth, she still loved him dearly and, during her lucid intervals, she was comforted by his presence. There was nothing that anyone could do for her and, as the hours passed, she grew steadily weaker and was aware of her surroundings less and less. In the early hours of Wednesday 5 September, between two and three o’clock in the morning, Catherine Parr, the last queen of King Henry VIII, passed quietly away, only six days after the birth of her daughter and at the age of just thirty-six. No one who had been in attendance on Catherine during the previous few days was shocked by her death, but everyone was deeply saddened by it as Catherine had been loved. It was still central to Thomas’s ambitions to display Catherine’s high rank and he ordered that a royal funeral be prepared for her in the chapel at Sudeley Castle, with all ceremony as befitted a queen. Catherine would have been glad of this and she would have been equally pleased to know that her funeral was conducted wholly in accordance with the reformed rites of the Church.

Shortly after Catherine’s death, her body was embalmed and she was placed in a lead coffin. The chapel was ‘hanged with blacke clothe garnished with schoocheons of maryages, vizd. King Henrye th’eight and her in pale under the crowne, her own in lozenge under the crowne. Allso th’armes of the lord Admyrall and hers in pale without crowne’. The chapel seats were covered in black cloth and a hearse was prepared, surrounded by tapers, on which Catherine’s coffin was to rest during the service. When everything was ready, the coffin was carried in procession into the chapel with the black-clad members of Catherine’s household following solemnly. Thomas, by convention, was absent, and the most conspicuous of the mourners was the tiny, ten-year-old Lady Jane Grey who acted as chief mourner. Once inside the church, the choir sang psalms in English and three lessons were read, again in the vernacular. The mourners then made an offering of alms, in accordance with their ranks, and Catherine’s almoner, the famous reformer Miles Coverdale, took to the pulpit to make a sermon. Coverdale’s sermon was intended to reinforce the queen’s Protestant beliefs and he took great care to:

"declare unto the people howe that thei shulde none there thinke seye nor spredde abrode that the offering which was there done was don anye thinge to perfytt the deade but ffor the poor onlye. And also the lights which were carid and stode abowte the corps were ffor the honour of the parsson & for none other entente nor purpose."

Source: Catherine Parr by Elizabeth Norton

[minervacasterly]

5 September 1548: The Death of an Evangelical Royal Consort & Influential Protestant Writer & Defender of her Faith

Six days after Queen Dowager and Baroness of Sudeley had given birth to a daughter she named Mary (after her stepdaughter, the Lady Mary Tudor) Catherine Parr died of puerperal fever. Little before her death, while in a state of delirium she claimed: "Those that are about me care not for me". Her husband, Thomas Seymour, was by her side comforting her the entire time. Jane Grey and other ladies were also with her, reading her the scriptures.

Historian Amy Licence theorizes she could have been infected after the birth by the midwives' unclean hands which would have made possible the passage of bacteria to her body. (The lack of hygiene during childbirth was not uncommon. If she had lived through the same ordeal now she would have been treated right away and saved but as it was, the only medicine then was based on plants and folklore beliefs that Catherine, given her extensive knowledge of the former would have known very well. It is not known if he midwives or she used any of these methods. In any case it was too late, the fever spread rapidly and claimed her on the morning of September fifth).

Her husband was grief-stricken, unable to believe that she was gone that he later said: "I was so amazed that I had small regard to either myself or to my doings".

Catherine was buried days later with full pomp and ceremony, with Jane Grey acting as her chief mourner, walking behind her coffin with Lady Elizabeth Tilney carrying the long train. Catherine Parr was the first Royal and only Queen of Henry VIII's, to have a Protestant Funeral. Miles Coverdale headed the funeral which was in English and concluded it with this eulogy:

"A beautous daughter blessed her arms,

An infant copy of her parents' charms.

When now seven days this tender flower had bloomed

Heaven in its wrath the mother's soul resumed

Our loyal breast with rising sighs are torn,

With saints she triumphs, we with mortals mourn."

Her husband Thomas Seymour, Baron Sudeley and daughter, Mary Seymour, did not survive her for long. Sudeley was arrested at his house while entertaining a guest, and sent to Tower under charges of treason. He was found guilty and beheaded on March 20 1549. Afterwards, their daughter was given over to Catherine Brandon nee Willoughby, Duchess Dowager of Suffolk in whose care she probably died as she disappears from the records a year after.

Despite leaving everything to her husband, the Protectorate took her wealth and this made Sudeley angry, and he ended up conspiring with the Marquises of Dorset (Henry Grey) and Northampton (William Parr -Catherine's brother), against his brother. The Duchess Dowager of Suffolk begged the Council many times to help her with her charge's finances but they never took her pleas seriously until 1550 when Catherine Parr's wealth was given back to her daughter, but by then she was probably sick or dying because she is never mentioned again.

Catherine Parr has gone down in fiction and popular media as nothing more than Henry's nurse and staunch Reformer but she was so much more than that. She and Mary I's mother were the only two of Henry's wives who served as Regents during his absence, and they were two of the most learned women in England who caused great impact on their respective faiths and both were known for being kind and generous. Eustace Chapuys before he left England on the summer 1545, commented that out of all of Henry's Queens, with the exception of Katherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr was the only one who was worthy of her position. She was a good friend with Mary I, who was encouraged by her to translate one of the gospels of the New Testament and who followed her wherever she went.

Sources:

Katherine Parr by Linda Porter

Sister Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle

In Bed With The Tudors by Amy Licence.

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

This week we bring you some of the very lovely wood-engraved initials from the book we posted about yesterday, The Book of Psalms from the Version of Miles Coverdale as Published in the “Great Bible” of 1539, printed in an edition of 875 copies at the Alcuin Press and published in London by the Haymarket Press in 1930. It is not mentioned where these initials came from, but we find them quite attractive and fitting for the content.

The Alcuin Press was founded in 1928 by Herbert Patrick Reginald Finberg (1900-1974) in a barn in Chipping Campden. Finberg had worked previously with Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press before setting up his own press, and had absorbed Newdigate’s typographical aesthetics. Using modern machinery, Finberg produced fine books in small editions using hand-set types on hand-made paper. The press moved to Welwyn Garden City in 1935, but fell victim to the world-wide depression, closing it’s doors in 1936. He then became the director of the Broadwater Press and, in 1944, the editorial director of Burnes, Oates and Washbourne. Finberg ended his career as an academic, becoming Head of the Department of English Local History, Leicester University until his retirement in 1965. 

These initials seem a fair tribute to the quality of Finberg’s working life.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

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Miles Coverdale's English Bible (1535)

Miles Coverdale’s English Bible (1535)

Tyndale never had the satisfaction of completing his gift of an English Bible to his country; but during his imprisonment, he may have learned that a complete translation, based largely upon his own, had actually been produced. The credit for this achievement, the first complete printed English Bible, is due to Miles Coverdale (1488-1569), afterward bishop of Exeter (1551-1553). The…