Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
For someone who is NOT a reader, I have a unique curiosity for older books. I have a Boy Scout manual from the 1920s. I have an Elson Grammer School Reader (1909). And where these two books are impressive…they do not compare to the collection of Bibles that I have. My, once, oldest one was 1890s…I now have one that is 1834. The one for 1834 is in better shape than some of the newer ones, but still extremely fragile. I was blessed to have a dear customer, who is downsizing, give me two of her collection…one of which was the 1834.
As I was looking through the tiny and old bible, I noticed at the end of Revelations two words that I had not seen any my bible and it made me laugh. “THE END”
Yes, the end of the bible, the end of Revelations, the words ‘the end’ closed off the book. How fitting. My bible simply has Amen.
When I showed my husband my tiny gifts and the find I had found inside, we decided to check others in our collection. The more modern versions in our collections … 80s to current… all have Amen. However, the older versions … as new as 1962 have the last words as “The End”. Curiosity just got the better of me and I needed to see what my German bible had. (Copy write 1912 …This is the end of the New Testament – in German of course).
Another fascinating fact about these older bibles is that there is so much more detail and commentary (as it were) in them. Some have color pictures. Some have whole sections of study and understanding. Plus maps and concordance. They are fascinating. In one, there are clippings from some family and one of those clippings talks about Chase, Indiana. (Chase today is not a very tall topic of discussion, so this intrigued me.)
I got a little off topic, my squirrel got loose.
My point for this post was the words The End at the completion of Revelations. I found it quite that they would add those two words to close the book. Those words are usually used to complete a story. Where that is true that the (world’s) story ends, our story as believers is just beginning…in an eternal life of peace and joy with our Lord.
Be blessed today my friends.
***Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – John 14:6
For someone who is NOT a reader, I have a unique curiosity for older books. I have a Boy Scout manual from the 1920s. I have an Elson Grammer School Reader (1909). And where these two books are impressive…they do not compare to the collection of Bibles that I have. My, once, oldest one was 1890s…I now have one that is 1834. The one for 1834 is in better shape than some of the newer ones, but still extremely fragile. I was blessed to have a dear customer, who is downsizing, give me two of her collection…one of which was the 1834.
As I was looking through the tiny and old bible, I noticed at the end of Revelations two words that I had not seen any my bible and it made me laugh. “THE END”
Yes, the end of the bible, the end of Revelations, the words ‘the end’ closed off the book. How fitting. My bible simply has Amen.
When I showed my husband my tiny gifts and the find I had found inside, we decided to check others in our collection. The more modern versions in our collections … 80s to current… all have Amen. However, the older versions … as new as 1962 have the last words as “The End”. Curiosity just got the better of me and I needed to see what my German bible had. (Copy write 1912 …This is the end of the New Testament – in German of course).
Another fascinating fact about these older bibles is that there is so much more detail and commentary (as it were) in them. Some have color pictures. Some have whole sections of study and understanding. Plus maps and concordance. They are fascinating. In one, there are clippings from some family and one of those clippings talks about Chase, Indiana. (Chase today is not a very tall topic of discussion, so this intrigued me.)
I got a little off topic, my squirrel got loose.
My point for this post was the words The End at the completion of Revelations. I found it quite that they would add those two words to close the book. Those words are usually used to complete a story. Where that is true that the (world’s) story ends, our story as believers is just beginning…in an eternal life of peace and joy with our Lord.
Be blessed today my friends.
***Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – John 14:6
Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
For someone who is NOT a reader, I have a unique curiosity for older books. I have a Boy Scout manual from the 1920s. I have an Elson Grammer School Reader (1909). And where these two books are impressive…they do not compare to the collection of Bibles that I have. My, once, oldest one was 1890s…I now have one that is 1834. The one for 1834 is in better shape than some of the newer ones, but still extremely fragile. I was blessed to have a dear customer, who is downsizing, give me two of her collection…one of which was the 1834.
As I was looking through the tiny and old bible, I noticed at the end of Revelations two words that I had not seen any my bible and it made me laugh. “THE END”
Yes, the end of the bible, the end of Revelations, the words ‘the end’ closed off the book. How fitting. My bible simply has Amen.
When I showed my husband my tiny gifts and the find I had found inside, we decided to check others in our collection. The more modern versions in our collections … 80s to current… all have Amen. However, the older versions … as new as 1962 have the last words as “The End”. Curiosity just got the better of me and I needed to see what my German bible had. (Copy write 1912 …This is the end of the New Testament – in German of course).
Another fascinating fact about these older bibles is that there is so much more detail and commentary (as it were) in them. Some have color pictures. Some have whole sections of study and understanding. Plus maps and concordance. They are fascinating. In one, there are clippings from some family and one of those clippings talks about Chase, Indiana. (Chase today is not a very tall topic of discussion, so this intrigued me.)
I got a little off topic, my squirrel got loose.
My point for this post was the words The End at the completion of Revelations. I found it quite that they would add those two words to close the book. Those words are usually used to complete a story. Where that is true that the (world’s) story ends, our story as believers is just beginning…in an eternal life of peace and joy with our Lord.
Be blessed today my friends.
***Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – John 14:6
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