Voices and influences
Miles Smith
One of the two final revisers of the English Bible of 1611 and the writer of its preface, The Translators to the Reader; afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.
Summary
This site quotes Miles Smith 4 times across 4 books, and lists 0 works.
- Quoted here most in Jeremiah: 1 of 4.
Miles Smith
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Quoted in full, because Miles Smith these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“But we desire that the Scripture may speake like it selfe, as in the language of Canaan, that it may bee vnderstood euen of the very vulgar.”
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Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. BSB
“wee neuer thought from the beginning, that we should neede to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principall good one”
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John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me, BSB
“Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light”
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1 Corinthians 14:11 If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me. BSB
“wee affirme and auow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set foorth by men of our profession (for wee haue seene none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God.”
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James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body. BSB
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This site quotes Miles Smith 4 times across 4 books.
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One of the two final revisers of the English Bible of 1611 and the writer of its preface, The Translators to the Reader; afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.
4 quotations across 4 books