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Notes, comments, thoughts on my studies at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Oh, fer cryin' out loud!

One of the first books I bought after becoming Reformed was that big blue paperback edition of Calvin's Institutes--the Beveridge translation.

Ohh, it was great. Big, hefty, relatively cheap. Could be used as a slightly softer alternative to a rock for a pillow when camping (pretty sure a friend did that). The 19th century English made you feel like you were reading a classic.

Then I got married, and one of the first books my wife let me get was the Battles translation--in the nice 2 volume hardcovers with the fish on the dustjackets.

Now I felt, grown up, mature, more studious. The language was more accessible, the translation sounder, and there were footnotes.

And now, twelve or so years after the Big Blue. I have to buy the Lane/Osborne Abridgment?!?!?!?!

What a travesty! What a joke! What utter nonsense! I hate, hate abridgments in the first place. But particularly when I own multiple copies (shouldn't forget the AGES CD-ROM which has both translations)--it's just wrong. But it's something I must do. I've been given a set of study questions for a test on the abridgment. I can either hunt through the Institutes and find the answers, hoping that my answers line up with what Lane and Osborne found important enough to transfer over. Or I can waste the $12 on the book, and find the answers easily. Time factors alone mandate that I put off buying Open Door by Evanescence and get this thing. A double whammy.

Hobster jotted this down on 10:43 AM. (( 10:43 AM
Comments: a name="115812282083189928"> Ahhh, a fellow Evanescence fan. Beauty.
# posted by Steve B : 10:47 PM a name="115838061732057251"> Ouch. I'd say buy the Evanescence, but I am a minister and should encourage responsible actions ;-)
# posted by polymathis : 10:23 PM Post a Comment

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