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Letis p. 247
1. The Geneva Bible (1560) knows of no variants at all in either case and gives full orthodox exposition to the received Trinitarian readings. Nevertheless, the accusation of Arianism was lodged against the Puritan annotators later in the seventeenth century by John Howson, who in 1619 would become Bishop of Oxford. In 1612 he preached a sermon from St. Mary’s pulpit citing several passages where the annotations broke with patristic consensus and which Howson believed would open the door to Arianism. There were, obviously, political implications to this but after reading the sermon I am convinced there is some merit to his arguments though over stated; and were no intended Arian sympathies on the part of the annotators (Howson 1612).3
3 Nicholas Tyacke deals briefly with this in his Anti-Calvinists: The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590-1640 (1987:69-70).
1. The Geneva Bible (1560) knows of no variants at all in either case and gives full orthodox exposition to the received Trinitarian readings. Nevertheless, the accusation of Arianism was lodged against the Puritan annotators later in the seventeenth century by John Howson, who in 1619 would become Bishop of Oxford. In 1612 he preached a sermon from St. Mary’s pulpit citing several passages where the annotations broke with patristic consensus and which Howson believed would open the door to Arianism. There were, obviously, political implications to this but after reading the sermon I am convinced there is some merit to his arguments though over stated; and were no intended Arian sympathies on the part of the annotators (Howson 1612).3
3 Nicholas Tyacke deals briefly with this in his Anti-Calvinists: The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590-1640 (1987:69-70).
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