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Principal Matters: Adultery Part 1

  • Principal Matters A
The Table of Principal Matters in the 1537 Matthew Bible contained a long study on adultery. Part 1 considers how seriously God views adultery, what a violation it is of the marriage covenant, and how God punishes this sin. An example is King David.
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Principal Matters: Adam

  • Principal Matters A
This short blog post tells us who Adam was, who we are in him and how we are subject to death through him, and looks at the last Adam, who came to save us from death.
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Principal Matters: Accusation

  • Principal Matters A
This bible study from the Reformation looks at diverse bible verses about accusation, including the malicious accusations of Satan, how accusations against ministers ought to be received, how our own conscience accuses us, and more.
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Principal Matters from the Matthew Bible: Acception (Partiality)

  • Principal Matters A
In this topic in the Table of Principal Matters in the Matthew Bible, John Rogers cited verses showing that partiality to any person or nation is not of God, and therefore ought not to be in us. In a postscript, Ruth Magnusson Davis considers the question, what is the New
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Principal Matters from the Matthew Bible: Abuses

  • Principal Matters A
This topic from the Table of Principal Matters in the Matthew Bible answers the question, What are abuses in the church? It teaches the importance of guarding against abuses such as idolatry, sects, acceptance of fornicators, not caring for the weak, and men's precepts.
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Principal Matters from the Matthew Bible: Abstinence

  • Principal Matters A
This is the third post in the PRINCIPAL MATTERS SERIES. John Rogers gathered together Bible verses that teach about the true abstinence of a Christian, which is to withdraw from sin and defilement.
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Principal Matters from the Matthew Bible: Abrogation

  • Principal Matters A
Rogers began this topic in the Table of Principal Matters by defining “abrogation”: it means to abolish, etc. Then Rogers gave scripture verses that declare the futility of the Old Covenant and of its decrees and ceremonies, which is why they were abolished. Beautiful verses also describe the inner virtues
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Principal Matters from the Matthew Bible: Abomination

  • Principal Matters A, Principal Matters Series
The first post in the Principal Matters series looks at what the Table of Principal Matters in the1537 Matthew Bible taught about what is abominable before God. Idol worship. How the abomination that causes desolation is identified in Luke's gospel.
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The Table of Principal Matters in the Matthew Bible

  • Principal Matters Series
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES on the Table of Principal Matters in the 1537 Matthew Bible. John Rogers wrote, “As the bees diligently diligently do gather together sweet flowers, to make by natural craft the sweet honey, so have I done with the principal topics contained in the Bible.” Find out
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Numbers 20 – Drawing Water from a Rock

  • MB
Numbers 20 in the New Matthew Bible, which includes William Tyndale's translation of the passage where Moses' strikes the rock at the water of strife. How Tyndale's use of a variety of words and his avoidance of unnecessary transliteration made God's word clear.
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Is It Wrong to Celebrate Easter? The Easter Ishtar Myth Debunked

  • General
Was Easter an ancient pagan festival in honour of an idol named Ishtar? No. This is a modern myth. No written records exist to connect Easter with Ishtar. The extant writings show that Easter was always a Christian festival, and was considered the Christian Passover.
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Israelites Required to Live in Booths for Seven Days during the Feast of Tabernacles

  • History MB
Tyndale explained in his 1530 Pentateuch that the word "booth" in the Old Testament meant "a house made of boughs." These houses were a main feature of the Feast of Tabernacles.
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What does Genesis 19:4 mean? Were women in the crowd that surrounded Lot’s house?

  • Genesis
Considering the story told in Genesis 19 about the crowd of people in Sodom who surrounded Lot's house and called for him to deliver his guests to them for violence and rape. Why Martin Luther concluded that women and civic leaders were all part of the crowd.
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Ten Tips on How to Read Early Modern English

  • MB
It takes practice, but it is not difficult to learn how to read Early Modern English. These ten tips cover common features of Early Modern texts that might cause difficulty for new readers. For example, a line over a vowel means an M or N has been dropped (frō =
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