Moody, Scofield later began work on his reference Bible, through which he popularized a new system of theological interpretation called “Dispensationalism,” developed by an Anglo-Irish man named John Nelson Darby. Scofield.Ĭyrus Ingerson Scofield was a civil war veteran who came to Christian faith as an adult, later pastoring churches in Dallas and Massachusetts. They are not, as a rule, a good time for experimental reading, and yet into my efforts to engage the King James text an unsolicited voice kept inserting itself, noisily, bombastically, irritatingly. Devotions are meant to be a time of stillness before the Lord, a daily period of attentiveness to the word where we seek to hear His voice and attune ourselves to His presence throughout the day. It feels nice to open, and sits nicely in the lap, and looks impressive on my shelf, although its bulk rendered it inconvenient for travel so that I quickly found myself reading it only at home during my morning devotions. The edition I’ve read was a gift from my grandparents back in 1998 (likely a graduation present) and is quite handsome to look at-a hefty, burgundy leather volume with gold edges. Last year, wanting to read still another translation, and always planning to spend time in the most famous of translations, I set myself to read the King James. Afterwards, I read through the New American Standard, which is the version I personally use for preaching today. When I was ordained I read it again, but this time for variety I read the New Living Translation. I’ve read through the New International Version two or three times-once in High School when my faith came alive, once (I believe, but I’m not certain) in College, and once again in Seminary. Scofield.īy my count, I’ve now read through the entire Bible five or six times. Use the study view.I love the Bible, but I’ve hated reading it this past year, and the reason for my hatred has been C.I. You cannot see this in the Bible view (this is normal).
It seems that all books have introductions. In study view, just use the topic combo box (or the topic tree) to navigate.Ĥ. In TW you can have comments on book level, chapter level and verse level. I have searched around the net, but most of the times i came upon similar situations. It seems that the source of the text was corrupted.
1:1 shouldn't be there at all, this is actually the book introductionsĢ. But not when opened in "Bible view", which makes it a bit unclear.ġ. I see now that in "Study view" there is some seperation (empty line) between paragraphs. Perhaps some empty lines between the subjects and the use of bold typeface, also further on in the same note ("2 of whom was born" and "3 christ")? Compare with E-Sword. 1:16 the Scofield notes start not clear:ġ Six Marys are to be distinguished in the N.T.: " And how do I get the "Book introduction" of the other Biblebooks? It looks as if in "The Word" something is wrong in Matthew. When you click on the chapter you get a note (if existing) of the first verse of that chapter. In E-Sword, when you click on the Biblebook you get with every book an introduction. Only Matthew has a "Book introduction", not the other Biblebooks (as far as I checked). "Error reading ulCompOffset" (at the start and several times at the end of the note).Īlso a part is missing after: "Only then (Matthew 26-28 ) does Matthew turn to the earlier covenant, and record the sacrifiError reading ulCompOffset", see E-Sword. 1:1 the following error message shows in the Scofield notes: