GODS ❤️ LOVE JOHN 3:16
GLORIFIED INK™ · THE SIDE BOOK OF THE ETERNITY VISION BIBLE™
The Companion walks beside the reader: the lands, the waters, the cities, and the daily life of the people in the Book — so that when you read of Galilee, you can see its shore; and when you read of Jerusalem, you can see the city on its hill.

ALPHA


THEIR WORK — an illuminated page in their manner: interlace and gold, letter by letter. An example made by this house in their honor.
SEGMENT I — THE MONKS OF LINDISFARNE & IONA, BROUGHT TO LIFE
Their work: on two small islands off wild northern coasts, monks wrote out the Gospels letter by letter and clothed them in gold and gems — Eadfrith the scribe, Billfrith the goldsmith-binder, and Aldred, who later wrote the English between the Latin lines.
Their accomplishment: the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells — among the most beautiful books of the early world — and in Aldred’s gloss, the first English Gospels.
The Answer of this house: their splendour was shown two pages at a time, to the few. Here every page is shown to every reader at once — and John, which Kells leaves unfinished, stands complete.


THEIR WORK — the hand-written English page, and the bundle that carried it into the villages. An example made by this house in their honor.
SEGMENT II — WYCLIFFE’S CIRCLE, BROUGHT TO LIFE
Their work: Oxford scholars rendered the whole Bible into English — and because there was no press, every copy was written out by hand, letter by letter, then carried into the villages by poor preachers with the Gospel in a bundle on their backs.
Their accomplishment: the work was banned by decree in 1408 — and refused to die: more than 250 hand-written copies survive to this day, more than of any other English book of that age.
The Answer of this house: what was once forbidden for being shared is now given to every hand at once, openly and for free — no licence asked, and no decree can recall a gift.


HIS WORK — the printed Testament, and the cloth bales that carried it home across the sea. An example made by this house in his honor.
SEGMENT III — WILLIAM TYNDALE, BROUGHT TO LIFE
His work: he translated the New Testament — and much of the Old — from the Greek and Hebrew themselves into the English of the ploughboy, in exile, moving from city to city ahead of his enemies, his Testaments sewn into bales of cloth and shipped home across the sea.
His accomplishment: he was martyred in 1536 with the work unfinished — yet the greater part of the King James New Testament is Tyndale’s own wording, and others took up and completed his chain.
The Answer of this house: the ploughboy — and every reader after him — now holds the whole Book plain before his eyes in his mother tongue, free: the very thing Tyndale asked for, and died for.


HIS WORK — the printed page, its great initial still painted by hand. An example made by this house in his honor.
SEGMENT IV — JOHANNES GUTENBERG, BROUGHT TO LIFE
His work: he wedded movable type, the press, oil ink, and paper into one system, and at Mainz printed the Latin Bible — where a scribe’s lifetime made a handful of copies, his workshop made some hundred and eighty.
His accomplishment: the Book was multiplied beyond any power’s reach to recall — yet the colour stayed handwork, and costly: the red initials and the glory of each copy still depended on what its buyer could pay, and some copies were never decorated at all.
The Answer of this house: here the colour and the glory are in every copy, and given free — what Gutenberg’s buyers purchased separately, copy by copy, this house gives with the Book.


THEIR WORK — the weighed Word: fifty scholars, seven years, one Book — and no man’s name signed to it. An example made by this house in their honor.
SEGMENT V — THE TRANSLATORS OF 1611, BROUGHT TO LIFE
Their work: some fifty scholars in six companies at Westminster, Oxford, and Cambridge gave seven years to weighing every word against the Hebrew and the Greek — building openly on Tyndale and the versions before them, and signing no man’s name to the result.
Their accomplishment: the King James Bible — the text this house carries unchanged. Yet they knew their own limit and wrote it in their Preface: nothing is begun and perfected at the same time; translation opens the window and lets in the light, age by age.
The Answer of this house: their own Preface is honoured here — the window opened wider still: their text carried word for word into every hand and tongue on earth, searchable and read aloud, still theirs, still unsigned.


HIS WORK — the chant book, and the picture that teaches: the faith sung, and shown to those who could not read. An example made by this house in his honor.
SEGMENT VI — GREGORY THE GREAT, BROUGHT TO LIFE
His work: pope from 590 to 604, who sent Augustine to carry the Gospel to England — and who taught the Church that a picture is a book for those who cannot read: what writing presents to readers, a picture presents to the unlearned; in it the illiterate read.
His accomplishment: under his name, the chant and the picture-teaching carried the Gospel to the little ones for a thousand years — yet the poor man’s picture Bible held only forty or fifty scenes, never the whole text beside them.
The Answer of this house: here the pictures stand beside the whole text, word for word — and the reader who cannot read hears it read aloud. Gregory’s two doors, picture and song, opened all the way.


THEIR WORK — the keeping itself: the chant copied by hand, hour by hour, age by age. An example made by this house in their honor.
SEGMENT VII — THE CHANT-KEEPERS, BROUGHT TO LIFE
Their work: the monks of Gregory’s tradition sang the whole faith at the hours of the day and night, copied the chant by hand, and guarded it in memory and parchment for a thousand years — the music was their second Bible.
Their accomplishment: the chant outlived every empire around it and still rises in their name — Gregorian — though it could only ever sound where a choir stood; most of the world never heard it.
The Answer of this house: their own chant is seated at this Book’s doorway for any reader to play — the Johannes Hymn they kept, sung by a voice given freely to the world — and every volume of this Bible opens under a hymn. The song now travels with the Book, everywhere, at every hour.
🎵 HEAR THE MONKS’ CHANT — THE JOHANNES HYMN (UT QUEANT LAXIS)
The hymn to John the Baptist from which Guido d’Arezzo drew the note-names — ut · re · mi · fa · sol · la. Recording by Membeth, released into the public domain (Wikimedia Commons).


HIS WORK — the typographer’s measure: every letter weighed, every margin a decision, beauty in service of the Word. An example made by this house in his honor.
SEGMENT VIII — KLAUS E. KROGH, THE NEAREST ANCESTOR, BROUGHT TO LIFE
His work: in our own generation, a Danish typographer gave his life to the making of Bibles — books built as vessels through which people could encounter God more deeply. He cared about every single detail, because he knew what was at stake.
His accomplishment: he left the measure this house now keeps — beauty, readability, durability, craftsmanship, purpose — and the question that judges every page: How can the next Bible be better? He died on October 7, 2026, while this edition was being built.
The Answer of this house: this Book is built under his five words, and it does not forget him: when it is complete, it goes to his family and his team as a gift, with the keeper’s own words — we wish we would have done it sooner, so he could have seen it on earth.


THEIR WORK — the guarded road: pilgrims walking home alive, because someone stood watch. An example made by this house in their honor.
A SEGMENT APART — THE GUARDIANS: THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, BROUGHT TO LIFE
Their work: for two hundred years they held the pilgrim roads of the Holy Land — the way itself was their charge, and the unarmed traveller their trust.
Their accomplishment: generations of pilgrims — poor folk with a staff and a scrip, and nothing to defend themselves — reached the holy places and walked home alive, because someone stood watch.
The Answer of this house: the Book now travels every road at once, in every pocket, and needs no sword to guard it — for it is given freely to everyone, and a gift given to all cannot be stolen.

OMEGA
MY WORK — THE GREAT LETTER. The angel-hair scrollwork that wraps the Bloodline — and the conjoining of all their works into one: the crystal vessel letters filled brim-full with the blood, sunlight living in the blood and coming from it, the scrollwork twisting around the glass, and over the great J a crown fit for the King of Kings, set with diamonds and every gemstone. This work is a full expression of everything possible — each faith and each religion brought to this table and honored, every ancestor’s work conjoined and given honor and respect, all of them together — attempting to complete what they attempted, bringing all their labors together in one Book, in service and in obedience to God, glorifying His Word in a way that has never been done before.

THE ROSARY — blood-red crystal and gold, by candlelight. Painted by this house in honor of the devotion.

THE SACRED HEART — His heart, aflame and thorn-crowned, emitting the warm small light. Painted by this house.
A portion of Scripture for every day of the year — the whole Book, from Genesis to Revelation, read through in order: three chapters on most days, and four on ninety-four of them, until the year and the Book end together. This is the old way, finished here. Saint Benedict’s Rule appointed set hours for holy reading; Cranmer’s calendar set the Scriptures in their order before the whole people through the year — what they began with the tools of their age, this house now lays in every hand. A day’s portion runs as the road runs, and may cross from one book into the next. Begin on any day: the year is a circle, not a gate. And every reading is a door — tap a chapter, and it opens in the volumes themselves.
Jan 1 — Genesis 1 · Genesis 2 · Genesis 3
Jan 2 — Genesis 4 · Genesis 5 · Genesis 6
Jan 3 — Genesis 7 · Genesis 8 · Genesis 9
Jan 4 — Genesis 10 · Genesis 11 · Genesis 12 · Genesis 13
Jan 5 — Genesis 14 · Genesis 15 · Genesis 16
Jan 6 — Genesis 17 · Genesis 18 · Genesis 19
Jan 7 — Genesis 20 · Genesis 21 · Genesis 22
Jan 8 — Genesis 23 · Genesis 24 · Genesis 25 · Genesis 26
Jan 9 — Genesis 27 · Genesis 28 · Genesis 29
Jan 10 — Genesis 30 · Genesis 31 · Genesis 32
Jan 11 — Genesis 33 · Genesis 34 · Genesis 35
Jan 12 — Genesis 36 · Genesis 37 · Genesis 38 · Genesis 39
Jan 13 — Genesis 40 · Genesis 41 · Genesis 42
Jan 14 — Genesis 43 · Genesis 44 · Genesis 45
Jan 15 — Genesis 46 · Genesis 47 · Genesis 48
Jan 16 — Genesis 49 · Genesis 50 · Exodus 1 · Exodus 2
Jan 17 — Exodus 3 · Exodus 4 · Exodus 5
Jan 18 — Exodus 6 · Exodus 7 · Exodus 8
Jan 19 — Exodus 9 · Exodus 10 · Exodus 11
Jan 20 — Exodus 12 · Exodus 13 · Exodus 14 · Exodus 15
Jan 21 — Exodus 16 · Exodus 17 · Exodus 18
Jan 22 — Exodus 19 · Exodus 20 · Exodus 21
Jan 23 — Exodus 22 · Exodus 23 · Exodus 24
Jan 24 — Exodus 25 · Exodus 26 · Exodus 27 · Exodus 28
Jan 25 — Exodus 29 · Exodus 30 · Exodus 31
Jan 26 — Exodus 32 · Exodus 33 · Exodus 34
Jan 27 — Exodus 35 · Exodus 36 · Exodus 37
Jan 28 — Exodus 38 · Exodus 39 · Exodus 40 · Leviticus 1
Jan 29 — Leviticus 2 · Leviticus 3 · Leviticus 4
Jan 30 — Leviticus 5 · Leviticus 6 · Leviticus 7
Jan 31 — Leviticus 8 · Leviticus 9 · Leviticus 10
Feb 1 — Leviticus 11 · Leviticus 12 · Leviticus 13 · Leviticus 14
Feb 2 — Leviticus 15 · Leviticus 16 · Leviticus 17
Feb 3 — Leviticus 18 · Leviticus 19 · Leviticus 20
Feb 4 — Leviticus 21 · Leviticus 22 · Leviticus 23 · Leviticus 24
Feb 5 — Leviticus 25 · Leviticus 26 · Leviticus 27
Feb 6 — Numbers 1 · Numbers 2 · Numbers 3
Feb 7 — Numbers 4 · Numbers 5 · Numbers 6
Feb 8 — Numbers 7 · Numbers 8 · Numbers 9 · Numbers 10
Feb 9 — Numbers 11 · Numbers 12 · Numbers 13
Feb 10 — Numbers 14 · Numbers 15 · Numbers 16
Feb 11 — Numbers 17 · Numbers 18 · Numbers 19
Feb 12 — Numbers 20 · Numbers 21 · Numbers 22 · Numbers 23
Feb 13 — Numbers 24 · Numbers 25 · Numbers 26
Feb 14 — Numbers 27 · Numbers 28 · Numbers 29
Feb 15 — Numbers 30 · Numbers 31 · Numbers 32
Feb 16 — Numbers 33 · Numbers 34 · Numbers 35 · Numbers 36
Feb 17 — Deuteronomy 1 · Deuteronomy 2 · Deuteronomy 3
Feb 18 — Deuteronomy 4 · Deuteronomy 5 · Deuteronomy 6
Feb 19 — Deuteronomy 7 · Deuteronomy 8 · Deuteronomy 9
Feb 20 — Deuteronomy 10 · Deuteronomy 11 · Deuteronomy 12 · Deuteronomy 13
Feb 21 — Deuteronomy 14 · Deuteronomy 15 · Deuteronomy 16
Feb 22 — Deuteronomy 17 · Deuteronomy 18 · Deuteronomy 19
Feb 23 — Deuteronomy 20 · Deuteronomy 21 · Deuteronomy 22
Feb 24 — Deuteronomy 23 · Deuteronomy 24 · Deuteronomy 25 · Deuteronomy 26
Feb 25 — Deuteronomy 27 · Deuteronomy 28 · Deuteronomy 29
Feb 26 — Deuteronomy 30 · Deuteronomy 31 · Deuteronomy 32
Feb 27 — Deuteronomy 33 · Deuteronomy 34 · Joshua 1
Mar 1 — Joshua 6 · Joshua 7 · Joshua 8
Mar 2 — Joshua 9 · Joshua 10 · Joshua 11
Mar 3 — Joshua 12 · Joshua 13 · Joshua 14
Mar 4 — Joshua 15 · Joshua 16 · Joshua 17 · Joshua 18
Mar 5 — Joshua 19 · Joshua 20 · Joshua 21
Mar 6 — Joshua 22 · Joshua 23 · Joshua 24
Mar 7 — Judges 1 · Judges 2 · Judges 3
Mar 8 — Judges 4 · Judges 5 · Judges 6 · Judges 7
Mar 9 — Judges 8 · Judges 9 · Judges 10
Mar 10 — Judges 11 · Judges 12 · Judges 13
Mar 11 — Judges 14 · Judges 15 · Judges 16 · Judges 17
Mar 12 — Judges 18 · Judges 19 · Judges 20
Mar 13 — Judges 21 · Ruth 1 · Ruth 2
Mar 14 — Ruth 3 · Ruth 4 · 1 Samuel 1
Mar 15 — 1 Samuel 2 · 1 Samuel 3 · 1 Samuel 4 · 1 Samuel 5
Mar 16 — 1 Samuel 6 · 1 Samuel 7 · 1 Samuel 8
Mar 17 — 1 Samuel 9 · 1 Samuel 10 · 1 Samuel 11
Mar 18 — 1 Samuel 12 · 1 Samuel 13 · 1 Samuel 14
Mar 19 — 1 Samuel 15 · 1 Samuel 16 · 1 Samuel 17 · 1 Samuel 18
Mar 20 — 1 Samuel 19 · 1 Samuel 20 · 1 Samuel 21
Mar 21 — 1 Samuel 22 · 1 Samuel 23 · 1 Samuel 24
Mar 22 — 1 Samuel 25 · 1 Samuel 26 · 1 Samuel 27
Mar 23 — 1 Samuel 28 · 1 Samuel 29 · 1 Samuel 30 · 1 Samuel 31
Mar 24 — 2 Samuel 1 · 2 Samuel 2 · 2 Samuel 3
Mar 25 — 2 Samuel 4 · 2 Samuel 5 · 2 Samuel 6
Mar 26 — 2 Samuel 7 · 2 Samuel 8 · 2 Samuel 9
Mar 27 — 2 Samuel 10 · 2 Samuel 11 · 2 Samuel 12 · 2 Samuel 13
Mar 28 — 2 Samuel 14 · 2 Samuel 15 · 2 Samuel 16
Mar 29 — 2 Samuel 17 · 2 Samuel 18 · 2 Samuel 19
Mar 30 — 2 Samuel 20 · 2 Samuel 21 · 2 Samuel 22
Mar 31 — 2 Samuel 23 · 2 Samuel 24 · 1 Kings 1 · 1 Kings 2
Apr 1 — 1 Kings 3 · 1 Kings 4 · 1 Kings 5
Apr 2 — 1 Kings 6 · 1 Kings 7 · 1 Kings 8
Apr 3 — 1 Kings 9 · 1 Kings 10 · 1 Kings 11
Apr 4 — 1 Kings 12 · 1 Kings 13 · 1 Kings 14 · 1 Kings 15
Apr 5 — 1 Kings 16 · 1 Kings 17 · 1 Kings 18
Apr 6 — 1 Kings 19 · 1 Kings 20 · 1 Kings 21
Apr 7 — 1 Kings 22 · 2 Kings 1 · 2 Kings 2
Apr 8 — 2 Kings 3 · 2 Kings 4 · 2 Kings 5 · 2 Kings 6
Apr 9 — 2 Kings 7 · 2 Kings 8 · 2 Kings 9
Apr 10 — 2 Kings 10 · 2 Kings 11 · 2 Kings 12
Apr 11 — 2 Kings 13 · 2 Kings 14 · 2 Kings 15 · 2 Kings 16
Apr 12 — 2 Kings 17 · 2 Kings 18 · 2 Kings 19
Apr 13 — 2 Kings 20 · 2 Kings 21 · 2 Kings 22
Apr 14 — 2 Kings 23 · 2 Kings 24 · 2 Kings 25
Apr 15 — 1 Chronicles 1 · 1 Chronicles 2 · 1 Chronicles 3 · 1 Chronicles 4
Apr 16 — 1 Chronicles 5 · 1 Chronicles 6 · 1 Chronicles 7
Apr 17 — 1 Chronicles 8 · 1 Chronicles 9 · 1 Chronicles 10
Apr 18 — 1 Chronicles 11 · 1 Chronicles 12 · 1 Chronicles 13
Apr 19 — 1 Chronicles 14 · 1 Chronicles 15 · 1 Chronicles 16 · 1 Chronicles 17
Apr 20 — 1 Chronicles 18 · 1 Chronicles 19 · 1 Chronicles 20
Apr 21 — 1 Chronicles 21 · 1 Chronicles 22 · 1 Chronicles 23
Apr 22 — 1 Chronicles 24 · 1 Chronicles 25 · 1 Chronicles 26
Apr 23 — 1 Chronicles 27 · 1 Chronicles 28 · 1 Chronicles 29 · 2 Chronicles 1
Apr 24 — 2 Chronicles 2 · 2 Chronicles 3 · 2 Chronicles 4
Apr 25 — 2 Chronicles 5 · 2 Chronicles 6 · 2 Chronicles 7
Apr 26 — 2 Chronicles 8 · 2 Chronicles 9 · 2 Chronicles 10
Apr 27 — 2 Chronicles 11 · 2 Chronicles 12 · 2 Chronicles 13 · 2 Chronicles 14
Apr 28 — 2 Chronicles 15 · 2 Chronicles 16 · 2 Chronicles 17
Apr 29 — 2 Chronicles 18 · 2 Chronicles 19 · 2 Chronicles 20
Apr 30 — 2 Chronicles 21 · 2 Chronicles 22 · 2 Chronicles 23
May 1 — 2 Chronicles 24 · 2 Chronicles 25 · 2 Chronicles 26 · 2 Chronicles 27
May 2 — 2 Chronicles 28 · 2 Chronicles 29 · 2 Chronicles 30
May 3 — 2 Chronicles 31 · 2 Chronicles 32 · 2 Chronicles 33
May 4 — 2 Chronicles 34 · 2 Chronicles 35 · 2 Chronicles 36
May 5 — Ezra 1 · Ezra 2 · Ezra 3 · Ezra 4
May 6 — Ezra 5 · Ezra 6 · Ezra 7
May 7 — Ezra 8 · Ezra 9 · Ezra 10
May 8 — Nehemiah 1 · Nehemiah 2 · Nehemiah 3
May 9 — Nehemiah 4 · Nehemiah 5 · Nehemiah 6 · Nehemiah 7
May 10 — Nehemiah 8 · Nehemiah 9 · Nehemiah 10
May 11 — Nehemiah 11 · Nehemiah 12 · Nehemiah 13
May 12 — Esther 1 · Esther 2 · Esther 3
May 13 — Esther 4 · Esther 5 · Esther 6 · Esther 7
May 14 — Esther 8 · Esther 9 · Esther 10
May 15 — Job 1 · Job 2 · Job 3
May 16 — Job 4 · Job 5 · Job 6 · Job 7
May 17 — Job 8 · Job 9 · Job 10
May 18 — Job 11 · Job 12 · Job 13
May 19 — Job 14 · Job 15 · Job 16
May 20 — Job 17 · Job 18 · Job 19 · Job 20
May 21 — Job 21 · Job 22 · Job 23
May 22 — Job 24 · Job 25 · Job 26
May 23 — Job 27 · Job 28 · Job 29
May 24 — Job 30 · Job 31 · Job 32 · Job 33
May 25 — Job 34 · Job 35 · Job 36
May 26 — Job 37 · Job 38 · Job 39
May 27 — Job 40 · Job 41 · Job 42
May 28 — Psalms 1 · Psalms 2 · Psalms 3 · Psalms 4
May 29 — Psalms 5 · Psalms 6 · Psalms 7
Jun 1 — Psalms 14 · Psalms 15 · Psalms 16 · Psalms 17
Jun 2 — Psalms 18 · Psalms 19 · Psalms 20
Jun 3 — Psalms 21 · Psalms 22 · Psalms 23
Jun 4 — Psalms 24 · Psalms 25 · Psalms 26
Jun 5 — Psalms 27 · Psalms 28 · Psalms 29 · Psalms 30
Jun 6 — Psalms 31 · Psalms 32 · Psalms 33
Jun 7 — Psalms 34 · Psalms 35 · Psalms 36
Jun 8 — Psalms 37 · Psalms 38 · Psalms 39
Jun 9 — Psalms 40 · Psalms 41 · Psalms 42 · Psalms 43
Jun 10 — Psalms 44 · Psalms 45 · Psalms 46
Jun 11 — Psalms 47 · Psalms 48 · Psalms 49
Jun 12 — Psalms 50 · Psalms 51 · Psalms 52
Jun 13 — Psalms 53 · Psalms 54 · Psalms 55 · Psalms 56
Jun 14 — Psalms 57 · Psalms 58 · Psalms 59
Jun 15 — Psalms 60 · Psalms 61 · Psalms 62
Jun 16 — Psalms 63 · Psalms 64 · Psalms 65 · Psalms 66
Jun 17 — Psalms 67 · Psalms 68 · Psalms 69
Jun 18 — Psalms 70 · Psalms 71 · Psalms 72
Jun 19 — Psalms 73 · Psalms 74 · Psalms 75
Jun 20 — Psalms 76 · Psalms 77 · Psalms 78 · Psalms 79
Jun 21 — Psalms 80 · Psalms 81 · Psalms 82
Jun 22 — Psalms 83 · Psalms 84 · Psalms 85
Jun 23 — Psalms 86 · Psalms 87 · Psalms 88
Jun 24 — Psalms 89 · Psalms 90 · Psalms 91 · Psalms 92
Jun 25 — Psalms 93 · Psalms 94 · Psalms 95
Jun 26 — Psalms 96 · Psalms 97 · Psalms 98
Jun 27 — Psalms 99 · Psalms 100 · Psalms 101
Jun 28 — Psalms 102 · Psalms 103 · Psalms 104 · Psalms 105
Jun 29 — Psalms 106 · Psalms 107 · Psalms 108
Jun 30 — Psalms 109 · Psalms 110 · Psalms 111
Jul 1 — Psalms 112 · Psalms 113 · Psalms 114
Jul 2 — Psalms 115 · Psalms 116 · Psalms 117 · Psalms 118
Jul 3 — Psalms 119 · Psalms 120 · Psalms 121
Jul 4 — Psalms 122 · Psalms 123 · Psalms 124
Jul 5 — Psalms 125 · Psalms 126 · Psalms 127
Jul 6 — Psalms 128 · Psalms 129 · Psalms 130 · Psalms 131
Jul 7 — Psalms 132 · Psalms 133 · Psalms 134
Jul 8 — Psalms 135 · Psalms 136 · Psalms 137
Jul 9 — Psalms 138 · Psalms 139 · Psalms 140
Jul 10 — Psalms 141 · Psalms 142 · Psalms 143 · Psalms 144
Jul 11 — Psalms 145 · Psalms 146 · Psalms 147
Jul 12 — Psalms 148 · Psalms 149 · Psalms 150
Jul 13 — Proverbs 1 · Proverbs 2 · Proverbs 3
Jul 14 — Proverbs 4 · Proverbs 5 · Proverbs 6 · Proverbs 7
Jul 15 — Proverbs 8 · Proverbs 9 · Proverbs 10
Jul 16 — Proverbs 11 · Proverbs 12 · Proverbs 13
Jul 17 — Proverbs 14 · Proverbs 15 · Proverbs 16
Jul 18 — Proverbs 17 · Proverbs 18 · Proverbs 19 · Proverbs 20
Jul 19 — Proverbs 21 · Proverbs 22 · Proverbs 23
Jul 20 — Proverbs 24 · Proverbs 25 · Proverbs 26
Jul 21 — Proverbs 27 · Proverbs 28 · Proverbs 29 · Proverbs 30
Jul 22 — Proverbs 31 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Ecclesiastes 2
Jul 23 — Ecclesiastes 3 · Ecclesiastes 4 · Ecclesiastes 5
Jul 24 — Ecclesiastes 6 · Ecclesiastes 7 · Ecclesiastes 8
Jul 25 — Ecclesiastes 9 · Ecclesiastes 10 · Ecclesiastes 11 · Ecclesiastes 12
Jul 26 — Song of Solomon 1 · Song of Solomon 2 · Song of Solomon 3
Jul 27 — Song of Solomon 4 · Song of Solomon 5 · Song of Solomon 6
Jul 28 — Song of Solomon 7 · Song of Solomon 8 · Isaiah 1
Jul 29 — Isaiah 2 · Isaiah 3 · Isaiah 4 · Isaiah 5
Aug 1 — Isaiah 12 · Isaiah 13 · Isaiah 14
Aug 2 — Isaiah 15 · Isaiah 16 · Isaiah 17 · Isaiah 18
Aug 3 — Isaiah 19 · Isaiah 20 · Isaiah 21
Aug 4 — Isaiah 22 · Isaiah 23 · Isaiah 24
Aug 5 — Isaiah 25 · Isaiah 26 · Isaiah 27
Aug 6 — Isaiah 28 · Isaiah 29 · Isaiah 30 · Isaiah 31
Aug 7 — Isaiah 32 · Isaiah 33 · Isaiah 34
Aug 8 — Isaiah 35 · Isaiah 36 · Isaiah 37
Aug 9 — Isaiah 38 · Isaiah 39 · Isaiah 40
Aug 10 — Isaiah 41 · Isaiah 42 · Isaiah 43 · Isaiah 44
Aug 11 — Isaiah 45 · Isaiah 46 · Isaiah 47
Aug 12 — Isaiah 48 · Isaiah 49 · Isaiah 50
Aug 13 — Isaiah 51 · Isaiah 52 · Isaiah 53
Aug 14 — Isaiah 54 · Isaiah 55 · Isaiah 56 · Isaiah 57
Aug 15 — Isaiah 58 · Isaiah 59 · Isaiah 60
Aug 16 — Isaiah 61 · Isaiah 62 · Isaiah 63
Aug 17 — Isaiah 64 · Isaiah 65 · Isaiah 66
Aug 18 — Jeremiah 1 · Jeremiah 2 · Jeremiah 3 · Jeremiah 4
Aug 19 — Jeremiah 5 · Jeremiah 6 · Jeremiah 7
Aug 20 — Jeremiah 8 · Jeremiah 9 · Jeremiah 10
Aug 21 — Jeremiah 11 · Jeremiah 12 · Jeremiah 13 · Jeremiah 14
Aug 22 — Jeremiah 15 · Jeremiah 16 · Jeremiah 17
Aug 23 — Jeremiah 18 · Jeremiah 19 · Jeremiah 20
Aug 24 — Jeremiah 21 · Jeremiah 22 · Jeremiah 23
Aug 25 — Jeremiah 24 · Jeremiah 25 · Jeremiah 26 · Jeremiah 27
Aug 26 — Jeremiah 28 · Jeremiah 29 · Jeremiah 30
Aug 27 — Jeremiah 31 · Jeremiah 32 · Jeremiah 33
Aug 28 — Jeremiah 34 · Jeremiah 35 · Jeremiah 36
Aug 29 — Jeremiah 37 · Jeremiah 38 · Jeremiah 39 · Jeremiah 40
Aug 30 — Jeremiah 41 · Jeremiah 42 · Jeremiah 43
Aug 31 — Jeremiah 44 · Jeremiah 45 · Jeremiah 46
Sep 1 — Jeremiah 47 · Jeremiah 48 · Jeremiah 49
Sep 2 — Jeremiah 50 · Jeremiah 51 · Jeremiah 52 · Lamentations 1
Sep 3 — Lamentations 2 · Lamentations 3 · Lamentations 4
Sep 4 — Lamentations 5 · Ezekiel 1 · Ezekiel 2
Sep 5 — Ezekiel 3 · Ezekiel 4 · Ezekiel 5
Sep 6 — Ezekiel 6 · Ezekiel 7 · Ezekiel 8 · Ezekiel 9
Sep 7 — Ezekiel 10 · Ezekiel 11 · Ezekiel 12
Sep 8 — Ezekiel 13 · Ezekiel 14 · Ezekiel 15
Sep 9 — Ezekiel 16 · Ezekiel 17 · Ezekiel 18
Sep 10 — Ezekiel 19 · Ezekiel 20 · Ezekiel 21 · Ezekiel 22
Sep 11 — Ezekiel 23 · Ezekiel 24 · Ezekiel 25
Sep 12 — Ezekiel 26 · Ezekiel 27 · Ezekiel 28
Sep 13 — Ezekiel 29 · Ezekiel 30 · Ezekiel 31
Sep 14 — Ezekiel 32 · Ezekiel 33 · Ezekiel 34 · Ezekiel 35
Sep 15 — Ezekiel 36 · Ezekiel 37 · Ezekiel 38
Sep 16 — Ezekiel 39 · Ezekiel 40 · Ezekiel 41
Sep 17 — Ezekiel 42 · Ezekiel 43 · Ezekiel 44
Sep 18 — Ezekiel 45 · Ezekiel 46 · Ezekiel 47 · Ezekiel 48
Sep 19 — Daniel 1 · Daniel 2 · Daniel 3
Sep 20 — Daniel 4 · Daniel 5 · Daniel 6
Sep 21 — Daniel 7 · Daniel 8 · Daniel 9
Sep 22 — Daniel 10 · Daniel 11 · Daniel 12 · Hosea 1
Sep 23 — Hosea 2 · Hosea 3 · Hosea 4
Sep 24 — Hosea 5 · Hosea 6 · Hosea 7
Sep 25 — Hosea 8 · Hosea 9 · Hosea 10 · Hosea 11
Sep 26 — Hosea 12 · Hosea 13 · Hosea 14
Sep 27 — Joel 1 · Joel 2 · Joel 3
Sep 28 — Amos 1 · Amos 2 · Amos 3
Oct 1 — Jonah 1 · Jonah 2 · Jonah 3
Oct 2 — Jonah 4 · Micah 1 · Micah 2
Oct 3 — Micah 3 · Micah 4 · Micah 5 · Micah 6
Oct 4 — Micah 7 · Nahum 1 · Nahum 2
Oct 5 — Nahum 3 · Habakkuk 1 · Habakkuk 2
Oct 6 — Habakkuk 3 · Zephaniah 1 · Zephaniah 2
Oct 7 — Zephaniah 3 · Haggai 1 · Haggai 2 · Zechariah 1
Oct 8 — Zechariah 2 · Zechariah 3 · Zechariah 4
Oct 9 — Zechariah 5 · Zechariah 6 · Zechariah 7
Oct 10 — Zechariah 8 · Zechariah 9 · Zechariah 10
Oct 11 — Zechariah 11 · Zechariah 12 · Zechariah 13 · Zechariah 14
Oct 12 — Malachi 1 · Malachi 2 · Malachi 3
Oct 13 — Malachi 4 · Matthew 1 · Matthew 2
Oct 14 — Matthew 3 · Matthew 4 · Matthew 5
Oct 15 — Matthew 6 · Matthew 7 · Matthew 8 · Matthew 9
Oct 16 — Matthew 10 · Matthew 11 · Matthew 12
Oct 17 — Matthew 13 · Matthew 14 · Matthew 15
Oct 18 — Matthew 16 · Matthew 17 · Matthew 18
Oct 19 — Matthew 19 · Matthew 20 · Matthew 21 · Matthew 22
Oct 20 — Matthew 23 · Matthew 24 · Matthew 25
Oct 21 — Matthew 26 · Matthew 27 · Matthew 28
Oct 22 — Mark 1 · Mark 2 · Mark 3
Oct 23 — Mark 4 · Mark 5 · Mark 6 · Mark 7
Oct 24 — Mark 8 · Mark 9 · Mark 10
Oct 25 — Mark 11 · Mark 12 · Mark 13
Oct 26 — Mark 14 · Mark 15 · Mark 16 · Luke 1
Oct 27 — Luke 2 · Luke 3 · Luke 4
Oct 28 — Luke 5 · Luke 6 · Luke 7
Oct 29 — Luke 8 · Luke 9 · Luke 10
Nov 1 — Luke 18 · Luke 19 · Luke 20
Nov 2 — Luke 21 · Luke 22 · Luke 23
Nov 3 — Luke 24 · John 1 · John 2 · John 3
Nov 4 — John 4 · John 5 · John 6
Nov 5 — John 7 · John 8 · John 9
Nov 6 — John 10 · John 11 · John 12
Nov 7 — John 13 · John 14 · John 15 · John 16
Nov 8 — John 17 · John 18 · John 19
Nov 9 — John 20 · John 21 · Acts 1
Nov 10 — Acts 2 · Acts 3 · Acts 4
Nov 11 — Acts 5 · Acts 6 · Acts 7 · Acts 8
Nov 12 — Acts 9 · Acts 10 · Acts 11
Nov 13 — Acts 12 · Acts 13 · Acts 14
Nov 14 — Acts 15 · Acts 16 · Acts 17
Nov 15 — Acts 18 · Acts 19 · Acts 20 · Acts 21
Nov 16 — Acts 22 · Acts 23 · Acts 24
Nov 17 — Acts 25 · Acts 26 · Acts 27
Nov 18 — Acts 28 · Romans 1 · Romans 2
Nov 19 — Romans 3 · Romans 4 · Romans 5 · Romans 6
Nov 20 — Romans 7 · Romans 8 · Romans 9
Nov 21 — Romans 10 · Romans 11 · Romans 12
Nov 22 — Romans 13 · Romans 14 · Romans 15
Nov 23 — Romans 16 · 1 Corinthians 1 · 1 Corinthians 2 · 1 Corinthians 3
Nov 24 — 1 Corinthians 4 · 1 Corinthians 5 · 1 Corinthians 6
Nov 25 — 1 Corinthians 7 · 1 Corinthians 8 · 1 Corinthians 9
Nov 26 — 1 Corinthians 10 · 1 Corinthians 11 · 1 Corinthians 12
Nov 27 — 1 Corinthians 13 · 1 Corinthians 14 · 1 Corinthians 15 · 1 Corinthians 16
Nov 28 — 2 Corinthians 1 · 2 Corinthians 2 · 2 Corinthians 3
Nov 29 — 2 Corinthians 4 · 2 Corinthians 5 · 2 Corinthians 6
Nov 30 — 2 Corinthians 7 · 2 Corinthians 8 · 2 Corinthians 9 · 2 Corinthians 10
Dec 1 — 2 Corinthians 11 · 2 Corinthians 12 · 2 Corinthians 13
Dec 2 — Galatians 1 · Galatians 2 · Galatians 3
Dec 3 — Galatians 4 · Galatians 5 · Galatians 6
Dec 4 — Ephesians 1 · Ephesians 2 · Ephesians 3 · Ephesians 4
Dec 5 — Ephesians 5 · Ephesians 6 · Philippians 1
Dec 6 — Philippians 2 · Philippians 3 · Philippians 4
Dec 7 — Colossians 1 · Colossians 2 · Colossians 3
Dec 8 — Colossians 4 · 1 Thessalonians 1 · 1 Thessalonians 2 · 1 Thessalonians 3
Dec 9 — 1 Thessalonians 4 · 1 Thessalonians 5 · 2 Thessalonians 1
Dec 10 — 2 Thessalonians 2 · 2 Thessalonians 3 · 1 Timothy 1
Dec 11 — 1 Timothy 2 · 1 Timothy 3 · 1 Timothy 4
Dec 12 — 1 Timothy 5 · 1 Timothy 6 · 2 Timothy 1 · 2 Timothy 2
Dec 13 — 2 Timothy 3 · 2 Timothy 4 · Titus 1
Dec 14 — Titus 2 · Titus 3 · Philemon 1
Dec 15 — Hebrews 1 · Hebrews 2 · Hebrews 3
Dec 16 — Hebrews 4 · Hebrews 5 · Hebrews 6 · Hebrews 7
Dec 17 — Hebrews 8 · Hebrews 9 · Hebrews 10
Dec 18 — Hebrews 11 · Hebrews 12 · Hebrews 13
Dec 19 — James 1 · James 2 · James 3
Dec 20 — James 4 · James 5 · 1 Peter 1 · 1 Peter 2
Dec 21 — 1 Peter 3 · 1 Peter 4 · 1 Peter 5
Dec 22 — 2 Peter 1 · 2 Peter 2 · 2 Peter 3
Dec 23 — 1 John 1 · 1 John 2 · 1 John 3
Dec 24 — 1 John 4 · 1 John 5 · 2 John 1 · 3 John 1
Dec 25 — Jude 1 · Revelation 1 · Revelation 2
Dec 26 — Revelation 3 · Revelation 4 · Revelation 5
Dec 27 — Revelation 6 · Revelation 7 · Revelation 8
Dec 28 — Revelation 9 · Revelation 10 · Revelation 11 · Revelation 12
Dec 29 — Revelation 13 · Revelation 14 · Revelation 15
Dec 30 — Revelation 16 · Revelation 17 · Revelation 18
Dec 31 — Revelation 19 · Revelation 20 · Revelation 21 · Revelation 22
And on the last day of the year the Book closes with its own blessing — “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” Then turn the year, and begin again at “In the beginning.”
One line runs through all the years — from the first day of the world to this present day — and on that line stands one Book. Here the ages are set in their order: the events of the Scripture, and then the carrying of the Scripture, down to the hour in which you read it. Where this house already keeps a living scene or a still for an age, it stands here beside the event; tap a reading, and its chapter opens in the volumes themselves.
The dates for the earliest ages follow the traditional chronology — the dates long printed in the margins of the King James Bible for centuries (the reckoning of Archbishop Ussher). They are given here in that old, honoured frame. The events themselves are the Scripture’s own.
c. 4004 BC · TRADITIONAL DATE
God speaks, and all things are: light, and sea, and sky; the garden, and every living thing; and mankind in His own image — and behold, it was very good.
c. 2348 BC · TRADITIONAL DATE
The fountains of the great deep are broken up, and the waters rise over the earth — and the ark rides upon the waters, and Noah and his house, and the living things with him, are kept through the deep.
c. 1996 BC · TRADITIONAL DATE
Out of Ur of the Chaldees, God calls one man to a land He will show him — and in him, and in his seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Under the stars the covenant is cut, and the promise is numbered with them.
c. 1491 BC · TRADITIONAL DATE
With an outstretched arm the LORD brings Israel out of Egypt; the sea is divided, the people walk through on dry ground, and the horse and his rider are thrown into the sea.
THE SAME YEAR · TRADITIONAL DATE
On the smoking mountain, with thunder and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud, the Law is spoken — ten words that still measure the conscience of the whole world.
c. 1000 BC
A shepherd of Bethlehem is set upon the throne, Jerusalem is taken and made the city of the king, and the kingdom is established — and the king is a singer: the sweet psalmist of Israel.
c. 966 BC
Solomon builds the house for the Name of the LORD of cedar and stone overlaid with gold — and at its dedication the cloud fills the house, for the glory of the LORD had filled it.
586 BC
Nebuchadnezzar’s armies burn the house of God and break down the walls of Jerusalem, and Judah is carried away captive to Babylon — yet even in exile the prophets are promised a return, and a remnant keeps the songs of Zion.
c. 538 BC
The LORD stirs the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and the door is opened: whosoever will, let him go up to Jerusalem. The exiles return with the vessels of the house, and lay again the foundation — and the old men weep, and the young men shout, and the sound is heard afar off.
c. 430 BC – 5 BC
After Malachi, the prophetic voice rests for some four hundred years. Empires rise and pass over the little land; the Book is kept, read, and waited upon — no word added, and no word taken away — until an angel stands at the right side of the altar of incense, and the silence breaks in joy.
No picture stands for these years. The silence has no scene; the Book rests — and the next voice is the angel’s.
📖 THE LAST WORD OF THE OLD — Malachi 4 · THE FIRST OF THE NEW — Matthew 1
c. 5–4 BC
In Bethlehem of Judaea the Word is made flesh. Angels announce Him to shepherds in the field, wise men follow His star from the east, and all the years before this night are counted backwards from Him, and all the years after, forward.
AD 30 / 33
At Calvary the Lamb of God is lifted up, and with a loud voice He cries, It is finished. He is laid in a new tomb in a garden — and on the first day of the week the stone is found rolled away, and the tomb empty: He is risen, as He said.
AD 30 / 33
Suddenly there comes a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and tongues like as of fire sit upon the waiting disciples. The Church is born in Jerusalem — and about three thousand souls are added that same day.
AD 100 – 1300
The empire that crucified Christ falls; the Book outlives it. On wild island coasts and in quiet cloisters, monks write out the Gospels letter by letter and clothe them in gold — the Book kept by hand through the long centuries. Their story stands in full in The Ancestors, above.
c. 1382
At Oxford, scholars of Wycliffe’s circle render the whole Bible into English for the first time. Every copy is written by hand, at the cost of months; the work is banned by decree — and more than two hundred and fifty copies survive anyway.
c. 1455
At Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg weds movable type, the press, oil ink, and paper into one system, and the Latin Bible comes off the press — some hundred and eighty copies where a scribe’s lifetime made a handful. The Book can never be recalled again.
1526
From the Greek and Hebrew themselves, William Tyndale translates the New Testament into the English of the common man, in exile, ahead of his enemies — and seals the work with his life in 1536. The greater part of the King James New Testament is his wording still.
1611
Some fifty scholars in six companies at Westminster, Oxford, and Cambridge weigh every word against the Hebrew and the Greek for seven years, building openly on Tyndale and all who came before — and sign no man’s name to the result. This is the text this house carries, unchanged.
1611 – TODAY
Printed by the million, carried in ships and saddlebags, translated tongue by tongue until no language under heaven is without its portion — the seed is sown in every field on earth, and still the sowing goes on.
2026
And the line comes down to this hour. In this house the same King James text — word for word, letter for letter, nothing added and nothing taken away — is lifted into the light of our own day: glorified in picture, scene, and song, and given free to the whole world. The Eternity Vision Bible™, Bloodline Edition™, stands at the end of the timeline not as its glory, but as its latest keeper — and the line runs on from here, through every reader who opens it.
THE KEEPER'S VOW
This Timeline is renewed every year, each January, with the year just past written in; and the whole Companion is walked through and renewed every five years. The Word itself never changes — not one letter, not ever.
Renewed yearly · kept for all times.
The English of 1611 is an older music. Some of its words have changed their tune in four hundred years, and a reader can stumble on a word that sounds familiar and means something else. This little wordbook tunes the ear: the Book’s own words, given in plain speech for today’s reader, with their kindred words set beside them — a dictionary and a thesaurus in one.
These helps stand here in the Companion, beside the Book. The Scripture itself is never altered — not one word, not one letter. The explanations are this house’s own, in plain words, and claim no authority over the text they serve.
Thou — you, speaking to one person, the one doing the action. Kindred: you, O (in address).
Thee — you, speaking to one person, the one receiving the action. Kindred: you, to you.
Thy — your, belonging to one person spoken to. Kindred: your.
Thine — yours; also “your” before a word beginning with a vowel sound (“thine eyes”). Kindred: yours, your own.
Ye — you, speaking to more than one person. Kindred: you all.
Hath — has. Kindred: has, holds.
Doth — does. Kindred: does, makes.
Saith — says. Kindred: speaks, declares.
Spake — spoke. Kindred: said, uttered.
Wot — know; “I wot not” is “I do not know.” Kindred: know, understand.
Trow — think, suppose, believe. Kindred: trust, deem.
Verily — truly, certainly, of a truth. Kindred: surely, indeed, amen.
Lo — look! see there! Kindred: behold, see.
Behold — see; look upon; take careful notice. Kindred: lo, look, regard.
Hither — to this place; here. Kindred: here, toward here.
Thither — to that place; there. Kindred: there, yonder.
Whither — to what place; where … to. Kindred: whereto, where.
Hence — from this place; from this time; therefore. Kindred: away, henceforth.
Thence — from that place; from that time. Kindred: from there.
Whence — from where; from what place or cause. Kindred: from where.
Wherein — in which. Kindred: in what, in which.
Whereby — by which; by means of which. Kindred: by which.
Wherefore — why; for what reason; and so, therefore. Kindred: why, therefore.
Thereof — of it; of that thing. Kindred: of it, of the same.
Therein — in it; in that place or thing. Kindred: inside, within it.
Hereby — by this means. Kindred: by this.
Herein — in this. Kindred: in this thing.
Unto — to; toward; upon. Kindred: to, into.
Nigh — near, close at hand. Kindred: near, at hand.
Oft — often. Kindred: frequently, many times.
Ere — before (in time). Kindred: before, until.
Peradventure — perhaps; it may be; by chance. Kindred: perhaps, maybe.
Haply — perhaps; by chance; if so be. Kindred: peradventure, perchance.
Nay — no; not so; indeed not. Kindred: no, never.
Yea — yes; indeed; truly. Kindred: yes, surely.
Betwixt — between. Kindred: between, amid.
Forasmuch — because; seeing that. Kindred: since, inasmuch.
Inasmuch — to the extent that; because. Kindred: since, forasmuch.
Insomuch — to such a degree; so much that. Kindred: so that, to the point that.
Notwithstanding — nevertheless; in spite of that. Kindred: nevertheless, however.
Thenceforth — from that time onward. Kindred: thereafter, from then.
Charity — self-giving love; love that acts for another’s good. (Wider than almsgiving, though it includes it.) Kindred: love, benevolence, kindness.
Conversation — conduct; manner of life; behaviour in the world. (Not talk.) Kindred: conduct, walk, behaviour.
Prevent — to go before; to come earlier than; to be first at a place. (“We shall not prevent them which are asleep” = we shall not go before them.) Kindred: precede, anticipate.
Let — to hinder; hold back; restrain. (“He who now letteth will let” = the one who now restrains.) Kindred: hinder, withhold.
Meat — food of any kind, not flesh only. Kindred: food, provision, victuals.
Suffer — to allow; permit; let happen. (“Suffer the little children” = allow them.) Kindred: permit, allow, endure.
Quick — living; alive. (“The quick and the dead” = the living and the dead.) Kindred: living, alive.
Quicken — to make alive; give life to. Kindred: revive, enliven.
Ghost — spirit; breath. The Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit. Kindred: spirit, breath.
Peculiar — belonging specially to one; a treasured possession. (“A peculiar people” = a people who are God’s own.) Kindred: special, treasured, one’s own.
By and by — in the Gospels, at once, immediately. (In later English it came to mean after a while.) Kindred: straightway, forthwith.
Instant — urgent; earnest; pressing on without letting go. (“Continue instant in prayer” = steadfast and urgent in prayer.) Kindred: urgent, steadfast.
Earnest (as a noun) — a pledge; a first payment that guarantees the rest will follow. Kindred: pledge, seal, foretaste.
Leasing — lying; falsehood. Kindred: lies, deceit.
Lust — strong desire or longing of any kind; in most places, evil desire. Kindred: longing, craving, desire.
Carriages — baggage; the goods and burdens a company carries. (Not vehicles.) Kindred: baggage, stuff, burdens.
Corn — grain of any kind — wheat, barley, rye. (Not maize, which the translators had never seen.) Kindred: grain, wheat.
Want — lack; need; poverty. (“I shall not want” = I shall lack nothing.) Kindred: lack, need.
Careful — full of care; anxious. (“Be careful for nothing” = be anxious about nothing.) Kindred: anxious, troubled.
Closet — a private inner room; a secret chamber. Kindred: chamber, secret place.
Simple — innocent; harmless; without guile; sometimes, unlearned. Kindred: innocent, sincere.
Utter — (as an adjective) outer, uttermost; (as a verb) to speak out, declare. Kindred: outer, speak, declare.
Hell — the place or state of the dead, and of final punishment; it renders the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna in their places. Kindred: the grave, the pit, Gehenna.
Devil — the slanderer; the accuser. From a Greek word meaning one who throws accusations. Kindred: Satan, the accuser, the adversary.
Damnation — judgment; condemnation. (In 1611 a sober legal word, not a curse.) Kindred: judgment, condemnation.
Beseech — to beg earnestly; plead with. Kindred: plead, entreat, implore.
Intreat (Entreat) — to plead with; also, to treat or deal with a person. Kindred: beseech, plead.
Supplication — earnest pleading, especially in prayer. Kindred: pleading, petition, prayer.
Lament — to mourn aloud; grieve deeply. Kindred: mourn, wail, bewail.
Bewail — to mourn over greatly and aloud. Kindred: lament, weep for.
Smite — to strike; hit with force. Kindred: strike, slay, wound.
Hew — to cut with blows, as wood or stone. Kindred: cut, chop, carve.
Slay — to kill. Kindred: kill, smite, slaughter.
Perish — to die; be destroyed; come to nothing. Kindred: die, be lost, be destroyed.
Tarry — to wait; stay behind; delay. Kindred: wait, abide, linger.
Abide — to stay; remain; make one’s dwelling. Kindred: remain, dwell, continue.
Dwell — to live in a place; make a home. Kindred: abide, inhabit, sojourn.
Sojourn — to stay for a time as a stranger in a place not one’s own. Kindred: dwell awhile, lodge, pilgrimage.
Hearken — to listen carefully and obey what is heard. Kindred: listen, give ear, attend.
Forsake — to leave behind; abandon; give up. Kindred: abandon, desert, leave.
Eschew — to shun; keep far away from. Kindred: shun, flee, avoid.
Declare — to make known plainly; tell forth. Kindred: proclaim, show, publish.
Publish — to announce openly; make public. Kindred: proclaim, declare, preach.
Commune — to talk closely and searchingly, even with one’s own heart. Kindred: confer, reason, meditate.
Meditate — to ponder quietly, turning a thing over and over in the mind. Kindred: ponder, muse, commune.
Enquire — to ask; seek to know; search out. Kindred: ask, seek, search.
Vex — to trouble; torment; stir to anger. Kindred: torment, grieve, provoke.
Afflict — to bring suffering upon; humble by pain. Kindred: oppress, trouble, chasten.
Oppress — to crush by power; treat with unjust force. Kindred: crush, wrong, afflict.
Spoil — (verb) to plunder, rob; (noun) goods taken in war. Kindred: plunder, prey, booty.
Consume — to burn up; use up; destroy utterly. Kindred: devour, waste, destroy.
Firmament — the sky; the heavens spread out above the earth like a vault. Kindred: heaven, expanse, sky.
Tabernacle — a tent; a dwelling place; the tent of worship in the wilderness; also spoken of the body as a dwelling. Kindred: tent, dwelling, sanctuary.
Sanctuary — a holy place; the sacred inner place of God’s house. Kindred: holy place, temple, refuge.
Atonement — reconciliation; sin covered, and God and man made “at one” again. Kindred: reconciliation, propitiation, covering.
Propitiation — the offering by which wrath is turned away and peace with God is made. Kindred: atonement, mercy seat, sacrifice.
Remission — a sending away; forgiveness of sins and release of debts. Kindred: forgiveness, pardon, release.
Sanctify — to set apart as holy; to make holy. Kindred: consecrate, hallow, purify.
Justify — to declare righteous; to count a person in the right before God. Kindred: acquit, reckon righteous.
Redemption — a buying back; rescue accomplished by the paying of a price. Kindred: ransom, deliverance, salvation.
Ransom — the price paid to set a captive free. Kindred: redemption, price, deliverance.
Covenant — a solemn, binding agreement and promise between parties, sealed with an oath. Kindred: testament, promise, league.
Testament — a covenant; also a will, which takes effect when the one who made it dies. Kindred: covenant, will.
Mediator — one who stands between two parties to make peace between them. Kindred: advocate, intercessor, daysman.
Intercession — pleading with one on behalf of another. Kindred: prayer for others, mediation.
Advocate — one called to another’s side to speak for him and help him. Kindred: comforter, mediator, defender.
Comforter — one called alongside to strengthen, help, and console — the Holy Spirit’s own title in John’s Gospel. Kindred: advocate, helper, consoler.
Grace — favour freely given; God’s kindness to the undeserving. Kindred: favour, mercy, gift.
Mercy — pity that acts; kindness shown to one in misery who cannot help himself. Kindred: compassion, pity, grace.
Faith — trust; a firm belief that leans its whole weight on God and His word. Kindred: trust, belief, assurance.
Repent — to turn: a change of mind and of way, turning from sin to God. Kindred: turn, return, be converted.
Regeneration — the new birth; being made alive again by the Spirit. Kindred: new birth, renewal, quickening.
Righteousness — the state of being in the right; uprightness before God and man. Kindred: justice, uprightness, holiness.
Iniquity — twisted, crooked wrongdoing; lawlessness of heart. Kindred: wickedness, sin, transgression.
Transgression — the crossing of a line; the breaking of a command. Kindred: trespass, rebellion, sin.
Trespass — a wrong done against another; an offence counted as a debt. Kindred: offence, debt, transgression.
Sin — missing the mark; every wrong against God and His law. Kindred: iniquity, transgression, trespass, evil.
Psalm — a sacred song, sung to the plucked strings of the harp. Kindred: hymn, song, canticle.
Selah — a mark in the Psalms: pause, lift it up, consider it well. Its exact sense is debated; its use is to make the singer stop and weigh the words. Kindred: pause, consider.
Hosanna — “Save now, we pray!” — a cry for help that became a shout of praise. Kindred: save now, praise.
Hallelujah — “Praise ye the LORD.” (Also written Alleluia.) Kindred: praise the LORD.
Amen — “So be it”; truly; the firm yes at the end of a prayer. Kindred: verily, so be it.
Parable — a story laid alongside the truth, that the truth may be seen by it. Kindred: similitude, proverb, figure.
Apostle — one sent out with a charge and a message; an ambassador of Christ. Kindred: messenger, ambassador, witness.
Disciple — a learner; a follower who sits under a teacher. Kindred: follower, scholar, believer.
Prophet — one who speaks God’s word to men; sometimes also one who foretells. Kindred: seer, spokesman, man of God.
Priest — one appointed to offer sacrifice and stand between God and the people. Kindred: minister, intercessor.
Levite — a descendant of Levi, set apart for the service of the tabernacle and temple. Kindred: temple servant, minister.
Scribes — the copyists of the Scripture and teachers of the Law. Kindred: lawyers (of the Law), teachers, copyists.
Pharisees — a strict party among the Jews, separated for exact observance of the Law and its traditions. Kindred: the separated ones.
Sadducees — a party of the priestly and wealthy families; they said there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit. Kindred: the priestly party.
Publican — a gatherer of the Roman taxes, commonly despised as a hireling of the occupier. Kindred: tax-gatherer, toll-keeper.
Centurion — a Roman officer set over about a hundred soldiers. Kindred: captain, commander.
Gentile — one of the nations; anyone not of Israel. Kindred: the nations, heathen (in the old sense), Greek.
Proselyte — one who has come over from the nations to the faith of Israel. Kindred: convert, stranger at the gate.
Synagogue — a gathering; and the local house of prayer, reading, and teaching. Kindred: assembly, congregation.
Alms — gifts of mercy given to the poor. Kindred: charity (in deed), mercy-gifts.
Fast — (as a verb) to go without food for a season, for prayer and humbling of soul. Kindred: abstain, afflict the soul.
Tithe — the tenth part, given to God of increase and income. Kindred: tenth, firstfruits.
Sacrifice — an offering laid down to God, most often a life given upon the altar. Kindred: offering, oblation, burnt offering.
Anoint — to pour or smear oil upon, marking a person set apart for an office, or prayed over for healing. Kindred: consecrate, chrism, set apart.
Consecrate — to set apart wholly for God’s service; fill the hand for office. Kindred: sanctify, dedicate, ordain.
Sabbath — the day of rest; the seventh day, holy to the LORD. Kindred: rest, the LORD’s day (by later use).
Passover — the feast of Israel’s deliverance out of Egypt, when the destroying angel passed over the marked houses. Kindred: the feast of unleavened bread.
Pentecost — the harvest feast fifty days after the Passover; in Acts, the day the Spirit was poured out. Kindred: the feast of weeks.
Jubile (Jubilee) — the fiftieth year of release: debts forgiven, servants set free, and every man returned to his own land. Kindred: release, liberty, the acceptable year.
Manna — the bread from heaven in the wilderness; Israel named it from their question, “What is it?” Kindred: bread from heaven, angels’ food.
Cherubim — a high order of angels, set as guardians — at Eden’s gate and over the mercy seat. Kindred: angels, guardians. (Cherub is the singular.)
Seraphim — the burning ones; angels who attend the very throne of God, crying Holy, holy, holy. Kindred: angels, attendants of the throne.
Legion — a great body of Roman soldiers, thousands strong; hence, any vast multitude. Kindred: host, multitude, army.
Cubit — the measure from the elbow to the fingertip — about eighteen inches, or forty-five centimetres. Kindred: ell (a longer kin), handbreadth.
Handbreadth — the width of the palm, about three or four inches. Kindred: palm, span.
Ephah — a dry measure for grain and flour — about twenty-two litres, some six gallons. Kindred: omer (its tenth), seah.
Hin — a liquid measure for oil and wine — about four litres, near a gallon. Kindred: log (its twelfth).
Firkin — a liquid measure — about nine gallons, or thirty-four litres. (The “firkins” of Cana were the waterpots.) Kindred: measure, bath.
Talent — a weight of silver or gold, some thirty-four kilograms; as money, a sum so great it figures a fortune. Kindred: weight, great sum.
Shekel — Israel’s weight and coin of silver, about eleven grams. Kindred: weight, coin.
Penny — the Roman denarius: a silver coin, the settled wage of a labourer for one day. (Not the modern penny.) Kindred: denarius, day’s wage.
Piece of silver — a silver coin; the thirty pieces of the betrayal were thirty silver coins, the price of a servant. Kindred: shekel, denarius.
Mite — the smallest copper coin in use — the widow’s two mites were the least gift that could be given, and the greatest. Kindred: lepton, farthing.
Farthing — a very small coin of little worth; two sparrows were sold for one. Kindred: mite, small coin.
Fathom — the span of a man’s outstretched arms, about six feet — the measure of the sea’s depth. Kindred: depth measure.
Furlong — about two hundred and twenty yards, the eighth part of a mile. Kindred: stade, measure of distance.
Raiment — clothing; garments. Kindred: garments, apparel, vesture.
Sackcloth — a coarse, dark cloth of goats’ hair, worn next the skin in mourning and repentance. Kindred: mourning dress, ashes.
Gird — to fasten up the loose robe with a belt, ready for work or travel; “gird up thy loins” is to brace oneself like a man. Kindred: bind, prepare, brace.
Loins — the waist and hips; spoken of as the seat of strength and of generation. Kindred: waist, reins.
Bosom — the breast; the embrace of the arms; the place of nearest love and rest. Kindred: breast, embrace.
Countenance — the face, and the feeling shown upon it. Kindred: face, visage, aspect.
Visage — the face; the outward appearance and form. Kindred: countenance, form.
Sore — (as a word of degree) severe; grievous; very great — “sore afraid” is afraid exceedingly. Kindred: grievous, exceeding, vehement.
Vehement — strong; forceful; fierce in heat or feeling. Kindred: fierce, strong, sore.
Fain — gladly; willingly — “would fain” is would gladly do it. Kindred: gladly, willingly.
Chambering — shameless, hidden looseness of life; bed-hopping without shame. Kindred: wantonness, lasciviousness.
GLORIFIED INK™ — Adam and Eve, hand in hand before the Tree of Life; olive branches frame the garden, and the river runs out of Eden.
The Book opens in a garden. Before there was sorrow there was this: the trees pleasant to the sight, the river parting into four heads, and God walking in the cool of the day. Every page that follows is the road back to this garden — and at the Book's end, the tree of life stands again, its leaves for the healing of the nations.
GLORIFIED INK™ — Noah’s ark, and the living creatures coming in two by two — “And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee.” — Genesis 6:19
After the garden came the flood, and God preserved a remnant through the waters in a vessel of gopher wood — the first ark, a picture of salvation carried through judgment.
GLORIFIED INK™ — The Ark of the Covenant, and above it the mercy seat, and the cherubims of gold with wings stretched out on high — “and there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims.” — Exodus 25:22
Before there was a temple there was a tent, and in its holiest place a chest of shittim wood overlaid with gold. The living crest at the head of every page of the Reader keeps this station: living glory, above the Word, where God appointed to meet His people.
THE LIVING WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE. GOD’S WORD LIVES.
🎬 GLORIFIED INK™ — LIVING PLATE · Fishing boats on the water where Jesus called His first disciples.
Capernaum stood on this shore. From boats like these, on water like this, the Lord taught the multitudes — and stilled the storm.
🎬 GLORIFIED INK™ — LIVING PLATE · The city on the hill, the Temple courts in morning light.
From the Mount of Olives, the Lord looked over this city and wept over it — and into this city He rode, to the shouts of Hosanna.
🎬 GLORIFIED INK™ — LIVING PLATE · Mending the nets by the shore — the daily work behind “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Nets were a fisherman's whole wealth, mended by hand every day. It was men with these nets in their hands that the Lord called — and they left the nets, and followed Him.
🎬 GLORIFIED INK™ — LIVING PLATE · The fields outside Bethlehem, where shepherds kept watch over their flock by night.
On hills like these, under a sky like this, the angel's announcement fell first on working men at their night watch — the good tidings of great joy.
🎬 GLORIFIED INK™ — LIVING PLATE · Seed scattered by hand across the furrows — the picture the Lord Himself explained.
Every hearer of the parable had watched this exact walk, this exact cast of the hand, a hundred times. The Lord took the most ordinary work in the world and made it carry the kingdom.
🎬 GLORIFIED INK™ — LIVING PLATE · A clay lamp, a small table, two mites — all that she had.
In a house lit like this one, the widow of the Gospel gave her two mites — more, the Lord said, than all the rich gave together, for she gave all her living.
GLORIFIED INK™ — The seals are opened, and the horsemen ride: conquest, war, famine, and death — and after them, the Lamb.
And the Book closes in thunder. The horsemen ride out at the opening of the seals — but they do not have the last word. After the trumpets and the thrones comes the marriage of the Lamb, the city descending, and the tree of life standing in its midst: the garden, restored. What Genesis planted, Revelation harvests.
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