The Apostolic Bible Polyglot - First Edition

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THE
APOSTOLIC BIBLE
POLYGLOT

T H E
A P O S T O L I C B I B L E
POLYGLOT
(cid:3) (cid:9) (cid:2) (cid:7) (cid:2) (cid:5) (cid:2) (cid:6) (cid:2) (cid:5) (cid:3) (cid:6) (cid:2) (cid:5) (cid:8) (cid:3) (cid:1) (cid:5) (cid:2) (cid:4) (cid:3) (cid:6) (cid:3)
A numerically coded Greek-English Interlinear Bible,
English-Greek Index, and Lexical Concordance.
THE APOSTOLIC PRESS ·NEWPORT
Amazing Grace
Copyright © 1996 by Charles Van der Pool
All rights reserved. This edition published 2006
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Introduction. ...........................................................................................................................vi
Old Testament
Genesis. ................................................1 Ecclesiastes ...........................................894
Exodus. ................................................77 Song of Solomon. ...................................905
Leviticus. .............................................143 Isaiah ..................................................911
Numbers. ............................................191 Jeremiah. .............................................985
Deuteronomy ........................................255 Lamentations. ......................................1068
Joshua. ...............................................312 Ezekiel. ..............................................1075
Judges. ................................................351 Daniel. ..............................................1154
Ruth. .................................................390 Hosea. ...............................................1178
1 Samuel. .............................................395 Joel. ..................................................1189
2 samuel. .............................................447 Amos ................................................1193
1 Kings. ...............................................490 Obadiah. ............................................1202
2 Kings. ..............................................539 Jonah. ...............................................1204
1 Chronicles ..........................................587 Micah. ...............................................1206
2 Chronicles. ........................................629 Nahum. .............................................1213
Ezra. ..................................................683 Habakkuk. ..........................................1216
Nehemiah. .......................................... 697 Zephaniah. ..........................................1219
Esther. ................................................718 Haggai. ..............................................1223
Job. ...................................................728 Zechariah. ..........................................1225
Psalms. ...............................................766 Malachi. .............................................1238
Proverbs. .............................................860
New Testament
Matthew .................................................1 1 Timothy. ...........................................299
Mark. ..................................................50 2 Timothy. ...........................................304
Luke. ...................................................81 Titus. .................................................308
John ..................................................133 Philemon .............................................310
Acts. ..................................................171 Hebrews. .............................................311
Romans. ..............................................222 James ................................................. 325
1 Corinthians. .......................................241 1 Peter. ................................................330
2 Corinthians. .......................................260 2 Peter. ...............................................335
Galatians. ............................................272 1 John. ................................................338
Ephesians. ...........................................278 2 John ................................................344
Philippians. ..........................................284 3 John. ...............................................344
Colossians. ...........................................289 Jude. ..................................................345
1 Thessalonians. .....................................293 Revelation. ...........................................346
2 Thessalonians. ....................................297
The English-Greek Index of The Apostolic Bible. .................................................................................1
The Lexical Concordance of The Apostolic Bible. .................................................................................1
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APOSTOLIC BIBLE DESCRIPTION form was Greek, as most of the Jews of the Diaspora
understood Greek, and lived in areas where Greek was
The Apostolic Bible Polyglot consists of three major
spoken. It was common for the writers of the New Tes-
works – The Apostolic Bible literal interlinear translation of
tament, when need arose to quote the Old Testament,
the Greek Old and New Testaments, The Lexical Concor-
to quote the Greek Scriptures rather than the Hebrew
dance of The Apostolic Bible, and The English-Greek Index of The
Scriptures.
Apostolic Bible. These three works are numerically coded
With the incorporation of the Greek Old Testament
with the AB-Strong numbering system.
Scriptures into the Greek New Testament via quotes,
surely this puts the Greek Old Testament in a unique
THE GREEK SCRIPTURES
position, as these Greek Old Testament words have
The Greek Old Testament, commonly referred to as become engrafted into the Divine Word of the New
the Septuagint or LXX, was translated from the He- Testament. For hundreds of years after the Christ,
brew Scriptures approximately 250 years before the during the formation of the apostolic age, the Greek
Christ. An account of this occurrence is noted in the Scriptures were consistently read and quoted by the
dubious Letter of Aristeas, and can be found in the Church Fathers. These all-Greek Scriptures are still in
back of An Introduction to The Old Testament in Greek, by Henry use in Eastern Christendom today, although the Canon
Barclay Swete, 1902. Whether or not this letter is true is different. The Apostolic Bible continues this tradi-
to the facts can be debated, but that the Greek Scrip- tion of The Apostolic Age Greek Scriptures, and is thus
tures were well entrenched by the time of the birth of named The Apostolic Bible.
the Christ is undeniable. With the fact of the Greek Old Testament partly
The acceptance of the Greek Scriptures can best be being grafted into the "inspired” Greek New Testa-
described by a quotation in the Mishna written around ment, it is inconceivable to think one can truly under-
the time of the Christ, with Herbert Danby’s transla- stand the deep meanings of the Greek New Testament
tion reading in Megillah 1.8, "The Books [of Scrip- without having the knowledge of the Greek Old Testa-
ture] differ from phylacteries and Mezuzahs only in ment. For example, consider the following passage in
that the Books may be written in any language, while the King James Bible, "he hath made him to be sin for
phylacteries and Mezuzahs may be written in the Assyr- us…" 2 Corinthians 5:21. The word for “sin” is
ian writing only. Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel says: “(cid:1)μ(cid:1)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:2)(cid:1)(cid:3),” where in Numbers 6:14, and many other
'The Books, too, they have only permitted to be written places in the Greek Old Testament, the word,
in Greek.'” “(cid:1)μ(cid:1)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:2)(cid:1)(cid:3)” is translated "sin offering." “Offering” de-
At the time the New Testament was being written, noted by the Italics, is implied by the context, as it was
the language of the common people of the Holy Land talking of animals for a sacrifice for sin. Jesus becom-
was Aramaic, but Greek was the international language ing the “sin offering” opens a whole new aspect of under-
used throughout the Mediterranean world. The sign standing this verse. That the Greek Scriptures were
above the head of the suffering Christ was written in designed for the Church is a strong argument, but this
Hebrew, Greek and Latin, with Latin being the tongue is not meant to demean the Hebrew Scriptures of the
used by the Roman prelates and judiciary. The Helle- autographs. Seeing that God saw fit to communicate
nists in Jerusalem at the time of the Passion were Greek mainly through the written Word, it is to one’s advan-
speaking Jews, and some became Christians as related tage to search diligently both the Hebrew and Greek
in Acts 11:20. Also in Acts 21:35 Paul asked the com- Scriptures.
mander, “Is it allowed for me to speak to you?” The CANON
commander responded, ‘You know Greek?’” The books of The Apostolic Bible correspond to the
When the apostles wrote the Sacred Scriptures to Hebrew Canon and the current Authorized Version, as
various churches and peoples, the common written far as book order and names. The most notable differ-
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ence in book names are 1,2 Samuel, and 1,2 Kings, mat enabled a closer comparison to be made, not only
which in the Orthodox canon are named 1,2,3,4 of variant readings, but also chapter and word order
Kings. The Orthodox Canon, along with the Roman variations, along with punctuation. As various manu-
Canon also contains books which do not appear in the scripts become available, these will also be compared
Hebrew Canon, nor the current Authorized Version of with the text of The Apostolic Bible, and changes may
the English Bible, such as the books of Baruch and be made. The Vatopedi manuscript, available from the
Maccabees, commonly called the “Apocrypha”. The Library of Congress in microfilm form, is one such
Apostolic Bible follows the book order of the current manuscript among many that will be used for compari-
Authorized Version of the English Bible. It must be son.
noted that many other book arrangements have ap-
peared in various Bible manuscripts and printed edi- APOSTOLIC BIBLE STRUCTURE
tions over the centuries. For example, Tyndale’s New
The history of interlinear Bibles goes back into the
Testament follows a different book order than the
manuscript age where interlinear Bibles appear with
Authorized Version, with the Book of Hebrews follow-
various language combinations. For example, the
ing 3 John. The development of the Holy Scriptures of
ninth century Codex Boernerianus displays the Greek
the early church readily adhered to the all-Greek Scrip-
text of the Pauline Epistles with the Latin appearing
tures of both Old and New Testaments, rather than a
above every Greek word. The earliest printed Greek
Hebrew Old Testament-Greek New Testament struc-
Bible, the Complutensian Polyglot, has an interlinear
ture which is prevalent today in the English Bible.
Greek-Latin text for the Old Testament, with the He-
This all-Greek mode was the norm in Western
brew Scriptures being in a separate column. Given the
Churches for hundreds of years during the develop-
introduction of the numbering system of James Strong,
ment of the Latin, Syriac and Coptic Scriptures. The
interlinear Bibles took on a three line format with the
Greek Fathers, Clement, Eusebius, and many others,
Strong’s number appearing above the Greek and He-
all writing in Greek, quoted the Greek Old and New
brew texts, and the English below.
Testaments extensively.
The Apostolic Bible is the first numerically coded
Greek Old Testament, and it allows the student of the
APOSTOLIC BIBLE GREEK TEXT
Word to study both Testaments in the same language,
The Apostolic Bible was not begun with the thought and to follow the association of a word from either the
of a new Bible translation, but was the result of years of New Testament to the Old Testament, or vice versa.
private studies that evolved into The Apostolic Bible. The Apostolic Bible trilinear format has the AB-Strong
The original typed text followed the Vaticanus-Sixtine numbers on the top line, the Greek text on the middle
text family. Then with the acquisition of the 1519 line, and the English translation on the bottom line.
Aldine Bible in microfilm format from the Kon- The Apostolic Bible text is separated into books, chap-
inklijke Bibliotheek, of the Netherlands, a comparison ters, section headings, verses, and footnotes.
was made between the Sixtine and Aldine texts, where
AB-Strong Numbering System
one reading was chosen over the other. With the acqui-
sition of the 1709 edition of the Greek Old Testament, In 1890, James Strong developed his monumental
edited by Lambert Bos, the 1518 Complutensian Poly- work, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, containing
glot variants, located in the extensive footnote sections, every English word of the Authorized Version, com-
were added for comparison with the Sixtine and Aldine monly called the King James Version. Included in this
texts. With further comparison it was decided to monumental work are two companion dictionaries of
choose mainly the text where two printed editions the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. The first dictionary
agreed. But since that time the acquisition of a full set is, A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible, numeri-
of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible in facsimile for- cally coded, containing 8674 Hebrew words with Eng-
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footnotes
lish definitions corresponding to the Exhaustive Con-
cordance. The second dictionary is, A Concise Dictionary of The footnotes in The Apostolic Bible are for refer-
the Words in the Greek Testament, numerically coded, con- ence purposes only, and not commentaries. Daggers in
taining 5624 Greek words with English definitions the text denote footnote usage, and have complemen-
corresponding to the Exhaustive Concordance. As the tary dagger marks in the footnotes for the marked
English Authorized Version is based on the Hebrew verse. The abbreviations used in the footnotes are ex-
Old Testament and Greek New Testament, a problem plained in the abbreviations list below. The most
arose when it was decided to numerically code the common footnote, “see Bos for variants," refers to the
Greek Old Testament, which had not been coded by Vetus Testamentum LXX, published in Holland in
James Strong. It was decided to adapt the Strong’s New 1709, and edited by Lambert Bos. The main text of
Testament Greek Dictionary numbering system to The the Bos Bible is a reprint of the 1587 edition of the
Apostolic Bible, and to furnish numbers for the Greek Vatican manuscript Codex B, or Sixtine Edition. The
Old Testament words that were not included in reference “Six.” refers exclusively to the text of the Bos
Strong’s Greek Dictionary of the New Testament, by Bible rather than its footnotes. The reference "CP"
alphabetically inserting new numbers delineated by refers to the Complutensian Polyglot Bible printed in
decimal points between the existing Strong’s New Tes- Alcala, Spain in 1517, but with most of its variants
tament Greek words. Hence, a word with an AB- listed in the Bos footnotes. The reference "Ald.” refers
Strong number with a decimal point generally means to the Aldine Bible printed in Venice, Italy in 1518, by
that that word appears only in the Greek Old Testa- Aldus Manutius, containing the Old and New Testa-
ment. In some cases various Strong’s numbers have ments in Greek only, but with most of its variants also
been merged into one number, mainly concerning the listed in the Bos footnotes.
verb “(cid:4)(cid:2)μ(cid:2),” or “to be” where James Strong had subdi-
vided the word “(cid:4)(cid:2)μ(cid:2)“ by tense and mood and had given abbreviations
each conjugation its own number. But now these words
Ald. - Aldine Edition
have been combined into one basic number - #1510.
Alex. - Codex Alexandrinus
Likewise the personal pronoun “(cid:4)(cid:1)(cid:3),” or “I” was sub-
Aram. - Aramaic
divided by case and number, and each declension was
Chald. - Chaldean
given its own AB-Strong number. These words are now
CP - Complutensian Polyglot Bible
combined into number - #1473. Whenever a merger
dim. - diminutive
of Strong's numbers does occur, it will be noted in the
et seq. – and the following
Lexical Concordance under the old number.
Heb. - Hebrew
i.e. - that is
section headings, chapters and verses
lit. – literal; literally
Section headings appear in The Apostolic Bible to Six. - Sixtine
enable one to quickly find a particular section of the substv. - substantive
Bible. Chapter and verse numbering in The Apostolic translt. - transliteration
Bible generally follows the current Authorized Version viz – namely
model. The Complutensian Polyglot Bible agrees with
the Hebrew as far as book and chapter order much accent marks and pronunciation
more closely than the Sixtine or Aldine Greek editions.
The earliest Greek Bible manuscripts were written
The Apostolic Bible follows the Complutensian Poly-
in the uncial form; that is, capital letters, and they had
glot model which varies somewhat from the traditional
few or no accent marks. Without going into great de-
printed Greek texts (mainly developed with the Sixtine
tail on the development of accent marks, let it be noted
edition).
that volume 5 of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible,
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