Agree that there’s no better way to honor Jerome’s legacy than to read the Bible regularly. For anyone who’d like to see the entire folio where the dream pictured above appears and read its Latin inscription, please note https://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/manuscript-pages/folio-183v.
This week I have been learning how to speak Middle English (ish) so I can read a passage of Tyndale's 1526 NT at church. I've never really looked at Tyndale's work before, and the beauty and time taken to write it so carefully has given me a new appreciation of the words.
I’ve started to use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer International Edition to get more Scripture into my life. It is tremendously helpful in that most of it is taken straight from Scripture, not to mention the lectionary and psalms readings it prescribes.
I find it hard to read Scripture, I think, because I react to my fundamentalist upbringing in which the Scriptures were twisted to fit anyone’s previously developed ideas. I don’t want to do that, but as the pendulum has swung to the other side I think I need to spend more time reading other helpful authors from church history (which is not a bad thing in and of itself), but I do it at the expense of reading the Bible.
At root, I believe I need to defend the Bible instead of trusting that God has spoken in His Word and He will defend it Himself, like Spurgeon said about a lion.
Agree that there’s no better way to honor Jerome’s legacy than to read the Bible regularly. For anyone who’d like to see the entire folio where the dream pictured above appears and read its Latin inscription, please note https://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/manuscript-pages/folio-183v.
This week I have been learning how to speak Middle English (ish) so I can read a passage of Tyndale's 1526 NT at church. I've never really looked at Tyndale's work before, and the beauty and time taken to write it so carefully has given me a new appreciation of the words.
I’ve started to use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer International Edition to get more Scripture into my life. It is tremendously helpful in that most of it is taken straight from Scripture, not to mention the lectionary and psalms readings it prescribes.
I find it hard to read Scripture, I think, because I react to my fundamentalist upbringing in which the Scriptures were twisted to fit anyone’s previously developed ideas. I don’t want to do that, but as the pendulum has swung to the other side I think I need to spend more time reading other helpful authors from church history (which is not a bad thing in and of itself), but I do it at the expense of reading the Bible.
At root, I believe I need to defend the Bible instead of trusting that God has spoken in His Word and He will defend it Himself, like Spurgeon said about a lion.
A manuscript in the National Library of France has an intricately painted version of Jerome’s dream (BNF lat. 920, f. 308v; https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52501620s/f624.item.r=Latin%20920). Worth a long look!