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Geneva first appears in history as an Allobrogian border town, fortified against the Celtic Helvetii tribe, which the Roman Republic took in 121 BC.. In 58 BC, Caesar, Roman governor of Gaul, destroyed the Rhône bridge at Geneva and built a 19-mile earthwork from Lake Geneva to the Jura Mountains in order to block the migration of the Helvetii, who "attempted, sometimes by day, more often by ...
Although the King James Version was intended to replace the Geneva Bible, the King James translators relied heavily upon this version. [23] Bruce Metzger, in Theology Today 1960, observes the inevitable reliance the KJV had on the Geneva Bible. Some estimate that twenty percent of the former came directly from the latter.
1883 – 23 November: Steamboat collision on Lake Geneva. [3] 1886 Geneva Seal adopted. Jet d'Eau (fountain) installed. 1891 – International Peace Bureau headquartered in Geneva. [30] 1892 – 9 July: Steamboat explosion on Lake Geneva. [3] 1893 – Piolet Club (hiking group) formed. [31] 1894 – Victoria Hall (concert hall) built.
Using a razor and glue, Jefferson cut and pasted his arrangement of selected verses from a 1794 bilingual Latin/Greek version using the text of the Plantin Polyglot, a French Geneva Bible and the King James Version [12] of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in chronological order—putting together excerpts from one text with those of ...
John Calvin (/ ˈ k æ l v ɪ n /; [1] Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
In 1541, with Protestantism on the rise, John Calvin, the Protestant Reformer and proponent of Calvinism, became the spiritual leader of the city and established the Republic of Geneva. By the 18th century, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city as its own.
Perhaps the first edition of an English language Bible that qualified as a "study Bible" was the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560; [1] [2] it contained extensive cross-references, synopses, and doctrinal points. The text of the Geneva Bible was usually not printed without the commentary, though the Cambridge edition was ...
3.1 International organizations based in Geneva. 3.2 Law and order in Geneva. 4 History of Geneva. ... Common English name(s): Geneva; Official English name(s): Geneva;