Geoffrey's Notebook

Week 30 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 29 Berean Literal Bible + 1 John 3:7-17 + Scofield's Notes 1 John (BLB) Have you heard of the Bereans? Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true (Acts 17:11) I'm really appreciating the work those from Biblehub.com have accomplished with their Berean Bible translations. They made a study version, an interlinear (which is pretty nice compared to others), a literal translation, and an annotated one. All of these are useful in different ways. This was a smaller team of translators but they took it seriously and they used a lot of input from volunteer scholars and bible students from all around. They have an open concept of sharing the text and their struggling notes for translating. Let's read their literal bible translation. If yo...

Week 29 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 28 Jerusalem Bible + 1 John 2:29-3:6 + FB Meyer notes 1 John (FB Meyer) For this week let's use a much smaller commentary. F.B. Meyer has some short notes on the book and I believe it is a good example for us. If, after having studied for a year, we can come up with some overview-type paragraphs for each major section that would be some fruit. It's true that we may have a lot of notes and many details to tell people about that we've discovered. But can we do something simple like this as well? As always, F.B. Meyer brings the word to all of us and lifts us up to Christ (see attached). Let's read from the Jerusalem Bible this time. In the 1960s or so there was a movement among the Roman Catholics to get into reading the Bible. One piece of fruit from that time is the Jerusalem Bible. It is a Catholic translation so it will have some extra books in it, but we're jus...

Week 28 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 27 LEB + Paraphrase 2:18-28 + Matthew Henry  1 John (LEB) Hey everyone! I wanted to mention at the start that now with commentaries added in we're all going to have the potential to do a lot of interesting studying as well as getting overloaded. If you're having a busy week, try just a sample of the commentary and set it aside for another time. You may feel like you need to do that each time and that's okay of course. It may help to pick a section of 1st John that becomes your section. You memorize it, you paraphrase it, you get notes on it, and you read all the commentaries we post on it. If you can do that then you can finish out 1 John later on when you have some more time. That said, LEB (Lexham English Bible) is a very neat translation that's more modern. The Logos Bible software company put this together gradually out from the interlinear work they were doing. T...

Week 27 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 26 Normal translation + Manna/Memory with 1 John 2:24-28 + Darby's Synopsis of the Bible Another (great!) overview of the Bible. This one will work with us since we've been studying 1 John. Normally, it's very difficult to follow unless you inch along with the Bible open. I've been so helped by this and am working through an audio version of it. It's free online (See links below). I also just recorded a podcast review on Darby's synopsis + Bible translation. I'll share that tomorrow as well. It includes the audio version of this synopsis for the intro and first chapter of 1 John. By the end of the week, I may have the rest of the audio finished with 1 John. Here's the older version with some archaic words Here's the updated version, where they changed things like "Holy Ghost" to be "Holy Spirit." Not too many updates.