. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. and Coverdale ; like the transfigured Ark,its stones were laid with fair colours and its founda-tions with sapphires from the Bible of Geneva and theNew Testament of Rheims. So it came about that the translation unto which the whole Church might be bound and none other,gathered every other within the pale of its it lingered the lights and voices of the Patristicages. Spain and the Netherlands, France and Italyhelped to give it ecumenical sanction.^ Many of itsbooks were hallowed by memories of recent martyrs ;and if ** whole pages visi
. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. and Coverdale ; like the transfigured Ark,its stones were laid with fair colours and its founda-tions with sapphires from the Bible of Geneva and theNew Testament of Rheims. So it came about that the translation unto which the whole Church might be bound and none other,gathered every other within the pale of its it lingered the lights and voices of the Patristicages. Spain and the Netherlands, France and Italyhelped to give it ecumenical sanction.^ Many of itsbooks were hallowed by memories of recent martyrs ;and if ** whole pages visibly follow the rhythm anddiction of Wycliffe, ^ it preserves an English traditionthat carries us back still further. Racial conquests,ravage of war, transitions of language seem to break * Neither did we think much to consult the translators and com-mentators, Chaldee, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek, or Latin ; no, nor theSpanish, French, Italian, or Dutch.—The Translators to the Reader, * Introduction to the Eversley Edition (Macmillan). 130. ©oD cceatet) tl)e Cartl)* z Zm tftecarti[)tt)as»}itl>out fo?me, an^bovti,anDDacfe^^nefte was bpontl)t face of tl)e Beepe: ant) tfte Spiritof dSot) mooueB bpon tl)e face of tl)erbaters;* 3 :^nO(!5oD&it)>*|Lettl)ctrebeWjj{)t: auDttjeretbaiSligljt 4 :ani)(i50DfatbtIjeli5!)t,tl)atitwas gooD:anD(!5oDDittiaeo^tIje lisl)t ftom^ewtrUencCre* 5 :»nD<i5oBcalleBfl)elisI)^anatl)eDarftneCrehecaUeDiI5i5l)t:^annti)t euetting auB t^e nio?ninstt)eteti)efirftDav* 6 c:^0(i5ooli«6,*llett!)erebea^fitmamentuttl^enuirfloftiOettjatertf:anii let it mxS^t t^t Idaters from tl^etbatersf. 7 :atttt(!5oBmaBeti)cfittttamenti ^tit\7)hut)^^ Hi^ \)iYAfpr((. Vlillidl were btlj^ Thb Authorized Version, i6ii—Genesis. Anglo-Saxon People the continuity of our Bible story ; and yet it does notappear too fanciful to surmise that such a continuitymay have actually existed in the lives of the people(among whom there was never any sudden break oflanguage), and that, if
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