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What are your thoughts on that?

Yeah, so Brett, the term quiet revival came about as a result of a Bible Society report from the UK last year.

which saw an increase in Bible sales.

So that is in itself significant.

And it was lovely to meet them a little while ago.

Brandon is the director of the Word on Fire UK Institute and also is a trustee at the Bible Society.

And so I gave him a fairly broad remit.

I was like, we can speak about some of the work.

man i think if there's one line that encapsulate that i've never been actually been able to find out who said it the first time but it's the only life worth living is one worth dying for and campion truly found the life that was worth living and knew that to be a life rooted in the love of christ so we thank you for that today.

Really, really wonderful.

We ask all our listeners to pray for you in your endeavors as trustee of the Bible Society and program director of the Word on Fire UK Institute.

If you want to find out more about that and how to join, go to wordonfire.org.uk. That's wordonfire.org.uk. Brendan, thank you so much.

The manuscripts Erasmus used for that, five in number, are still at Basel.

and not one of them is ancient the most valuable of the five being one written in the tenth century that followed entirely in the translation of the gospels was one written as late as the fifteenth century but while tyndale no more than other men could go before his time in such matters to him as dr westcott has truly said more than to any other man it has been allowed to give its characteristic shape to our english bible To the same purport, the compilers of the valuable historical catalog of the Bible Society have noted it as remarkable to what an extent the first printed English Testament fixed the phraseology of all its successors.

Even in the revised version of 1881, it has been calculated that at least 80% of the words stand precisely as they stood in Tyndale's Testament of 1525.

It has also been noted as matter for surprise that there is so little difference between the English of 1525 and that of the ordinary Bibles.

Dr. Wescott takes the passage in Ephesians 4, verses 7-16 as an illustration of how much merit is due to this part of the work.

Having shown that in this passage the Great Bible and the Bishop's Bible differ in 26 places, he adds, of these twenty-six variations no less than sixteen are new while only ten are due to the genevan version and the character of the original corrections marks a very close and thoughtful revision based faithfully upon the greek He further shows that throughout the entire epistle, the changes amount to nearly 50, and among the new readings are some phrases which have become very familiar to us as less than the least of all saints, middle wall of the partition, fellow citizens with the saints.

It may be mentioned that copies of the chief editions of the Bishop's Bible are preserved in the British Museum, in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in the Rylands Library, and in that of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

and now at this point a notable fact occurred as the genevan version of fifteen sixty was followed in the way of a correction by the bishop's bible of fifteen sixty eight so this again was followed with the same purpose by the roman catholic version of the new testament in english known as the rheims douai bible of fifteen eighty two it was printed abroad and appeared in england bearing the following elaborate title The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred with the Greek and other editions in diverse languages, with arguments of books and chapters, annotations and other necessary helps, for the better understanding of the text, and specially for the discovery of the corruptions of diverse late translations, and for clearing the controversies in religion in these days, in the English College of Reims.

trembling for one whom i had learnt to love and admire so truly how well the maturity of his prudence subsequently manifested itself is well seen in the course he took at the

establishment of the cambridge bible society i attended his ministry never either before or since have i heard a preacher who seemed so to take me by the hand and lead me aside into close communion with himself as to the state of my own soul much later in life i as well as many others was well aware of his unbounded liberality i had taken

up the case of three ladies daughters of one whom he had known in earlier years as amongst the very few of the clergy who with grimshaw vane and others had stood boldly for the truth against

an ungodly and a scoffing world his reply was quite characteristic

Yeah.

What about Bible Society? You had a key role with the Bible Society?

Well, I was approached because it was about to attempt the same journey that Mission Australia went on, and that is to bring all of the Bible societies into one legal entity.

They tried to do that two or three times over the decades and couldn't quite pull it off.

And they said, well, you've done it over there.

Why don't you do it here? And so we – I met with all of the chairman, visited each Bible society.

It was pretty crazy.

I mean, you've got a separate Bible society in each state or territory with its own chief executive, its own accounting system, its own balance sheet, its own board of directors.

Ten years ago, Faith Comes By Hearing was not a translation ministry.

So we work in partnership with Wycliffe, Bible Societies, SIL, and others.

And as their missionaries were translating the Bible, and in many cases, it was a life's work, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

of working among an indigenous people group where they would go and they would have to learn the language then they would have to create an alphabet then they would create a dictionary then they would start translating the bible and maybe the book of luke get that completed and give it to jesus film another so they could make a video a video bible or an introduction something to give some sort of discipleship materials and they would work a lifetime i always say when I'm talking, we absolutely love and honor the traditional Bible translation agencies.

Keep in mind, we put everything out online, free of charge, and any ministry that wants to register with us can access our API, our open API.

So we get permissions for that.

But there are some copyrights and proprietary issues with the copyright holder, Wycliffe, Bible Societies, and others.

but we woke up and found out that 1,001 of our languages were, was being used in large language learning models.

For example, consider a recent study from the UK making similar claims.

A report from an organization called the Bible Society argued that church attendance in England and Wales had exploded since 2018.

According to their numbers, attendance among men aged 18 to 24 supposedly jumped from 4% to 21% in just a few years.

I

And it was like a 45 minute video on Satanism's historical rise and why they came to be.

So where did the whole revival story come from? Voas argues it was the study's methodology.

The Bible Society used an online opt-in panel run by YouGov.

People volunteer to join these panels, which means the sample is not truly random.