e-Sword 9+ Module Download:
Download Holy Bible Improved Edition 7-7-2020

 

This entry provides one download file. This was submitted by agsper652 Jul 08 2020 and updated Jan 28 2021. This module applies to the use of e-Sword for the PC from version 11 and later.

This module also applies to e-Sword X for the Apple Mac; e-Sword HD for the iPad; e-Sword LT for the iPhone; and e-Sword for Android tablets and Android mobile devices.

[1] hbie_holy_bible_improved_edition_1913.bbli 35.55 MB

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: The year date on the filename module name is incorrect. When you download this file, please change the year to 1912 in the filename. The name that appears in the Options > Resource Settings... > Resource Options, Bibles is correctly listed as "Holy Bible Improved Edition, 1912".

The installed module size is 36402KB. The Bible Tab is "HBIE", with the following details "Holy Bible Improved Version, 1912"

 

Because there is another module available from Bible Support that contains the 1913 Edition, also with the filename HBIE, which will NOT load if this entry had already been loaded, I recommend that you change the tab name to "HBIE1912".

 

A later edition of this Bible by the American Baptists, with the Bible Tab also "HBIE" is available at:  

This entry was submitted by agsper652 Jan 28 2021 and last updated Jan 28 2021.

[1] hbie_holy_bible_improved_edition_1913.bbli 48.51MB

I suggest that you also [1] download the e-Sword Tab Renamer 1.5", which you'll find here. 

 

The file that you download will be "e-SwordTabRenamer.exe 889.23K" If your PC refuses to download this "exe" file and blocks it, then in the download option tell your PC to "SAVE AS" and append the letters ".docx" immediately after the letters of the file type ".exe" and then it should download. Tell your PC to "keep" the file if it asks what to do with the file. Then, in the folder where the file has been downloaded, tap the filename and right click. Select "properties", and view the Properties of the downloaded file. It will be classified as a Microsoft Word Document (.docx) type file - ignore this for now. At the bottom of the Properties details notice the "Security" warning: "This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer." Move the pointer over the empty check box alongside the word Unblock, and select the box with a left click of the mouse button. The check box will change to one with a tick mark inside it, and the security warning will disappear, and the "Apply" button at the bottom of the Properties window will change from being greyed-out, and become available. Move the pointer over the "Apply" button, and select this. Then the Accessed date and time will be updated. Move the pointer over the "OK" button, and select "OK", to close the Properties window.

Move the pointer over the filename so it is highlighted, and use the Rename option which you can get with the F2 function key, or with a right click. Remove the ".docx" letters after the ".exe" in the filename, and click your pointer somewhere else. The PC will provide a warning to ask: "Rename If you change a filename extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?" There are two options, "Yes" or "No". Select the "Yes" button option. When this has successfully completed. Now select the e-SwordTabRenamer.exe to OPEN. Let it run and install itself. It will suggest to install itself in the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword Tab Renamer" and that folder name is OK. Click on "Next". Follow instructions until you click on the "Finish" button, and the installation will be complete. 

 

There will be a new shortcut on the Desktop "C-eSword Tab Renamer.exe"

You will notice that when you hover your pointer over the shortcut, it will remind you "This enables the description on the tab of an e-Sword Resource to be changed."

 

Please close e-Sword. Select the e-Sword Tab Renamer shortcut. In the e-Sword Tab Renamer, you will see a rectangle with the words "Open e-Sword Module". Move the pointer into this blue rectangle, and left click. 

A new window will appear. You will have an "Open" browser which will be in the C:\Program Files (x86) > e-Sword folder. Browse to the Name of the file, select it, and the filename will appear in the text box. Select the "Open" button at the lower right corner.    

You now see the e-Sword Tab Renamer window again. 

The Module Name that you selected will now appear in the text window, and cannot be changed from here.

The Module Title will appear. This can be amended if necessary. This will appear in e-Sword "Options", "Resource Settings...", Resource Options in the Bibles selection.

The Tab Name will appear. Here you can change the Bible Tab from HBIE to HBIE1912

Select the Update button. The details will be updated as requested. 

Here are the details of the content of this module from the "Bible Information" tab.

 

(Based in part on the Bible Union Version)

The American Bible Union formed with a view of revising the King James Version and published a New Testament in 1862-1864. Some revision work was also done on the Old Testament after 1865 though not published as a complete work. The Bible Union dissolved and turned its assets over to The American Baptist Publication Society in 1883, which later picked up the work and published a revision of the New Testament in 1891 and an Old and New Testament in 1912, with some further revisions, under the title: Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, An Improved Edition (Based in part on the Bible Union Version), reprinted in 1913. Some editions replaced "baptize" with "immerse" to reflect Baptist views -- the 1912 revision compromised on this point by giving both words. This was one of the earliest versions to make changes based on discovery of older Greek manuscripts, along with the English Revised Version of 1881 and the similar American Standard Version of 1901.

 

Notes in the printed edition were printed at the bottom of the page with number of the verse referred to, leaving it difficult at times to know what point in the verse is being referred to exactly; this electronic edition has added numbers within the verse that will hopefully make it more clear. The notes should display upon mouseover.

 

PREFATORY NOTE

In 1883, at the Saratoga Convention, the Bible work of the denomination at home was committed to the American Baptist Publication Society. With it was coupled the duty of continuing the versions of the Bible Union. At a later conference it was determined that the revision of the Old Testament should be completed as funds should be furnished for this work.

In the course of time, sufficient means had accumulated, and in 1889 the work was assigned as follows: To Prof. Barnard C. Taylor, D. D., of Crozer Theological Seminary, was given the revision of Prof. T. J. Conant’s Bible Union Version of Genesis, Job, Psalms, and Proverbs; and also the translation of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First and Second Samuel. To Prof. J. R. Sampey, D. D., of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was assigned the translation of First and Second Kings, First and Second Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations. President William R. Harper, of the University of Chicago, undertook the work of translating Isaiah and the Minor Prophets, while Prof. Ira M. Price, D. D., of the same institution, assumed the task of translating Jeremiah and Ezekiel. In making these assignments it was the understanding that each writer should be responsible for his own work and follow his own plan. In this connection the publishers acknowledge the services of Prof. G. M. P. Smith, of the University of Chicago, in revising the proof of Doctor Harper’s portion.

 

When the work of translation was sufficiently advanced, that of composition began. Progress was slow, however, and this part of the undertaking was not completed until the year 1910, when, to the great gratification of the Society, the task assigned by the Saratoga Convention in 1883 was ended in so far as production is concerned.

 

There are one or two features of this revision to which we call special attention. As is well known, in the Authorized and Revised versions, supplied words are printed in italics. For the most part in this work such words are reduced to a minimum, and where they do occur, they are enclosed in brackets [ ] so that the pages are not defaced by italicized words. In addition, while in Job, Psalms, and Proverbs in the standard revisions the poetic form of the Hebrew is recognized, in the prophets it is disregarded. In this revision, in the prophets likewise, this form is employed, and their deliverances will be found to have gained thereby in clearness and force.

 

As a translation is not a commentary, few notes are found in this version. Those that do appear pertain mainly to the text itself and are not expository.

 

While from the nature of the case there could not be the difference between this revision and the Authorized and Revised versions of the Scriptures that obtains between these and the Improved Edition of the New Testament, it is believed that the difference is sufficient to justify its production, and commend it to public favor. The Society cannot refrain from congratulating the denomination on the completion of this great work, and it cherishes the hope that it may aid in making current that Word whose entrance to the heart and life always gives light.

Philadelphia, May, 1912. Printed in U. S. A.

 

PREFATORY NOTE The New Testament in this volume is the Bible Union version, fourth edition.

The American Bible Union published a Revised version of the New Testament, in three small volumes, in 1862, 1863, and 1864 respectively, and the whole in one volume in the last named year. Some questions having been left unsettled, a second revision, so denominated on the title-page, was issued in 1865. This is the well-known, widely used, and highly commended "Bible Union New Testament." Both editions were prepared by a final committee, consisting of those able and devout scholars, Thomas J. Conant, D. D., Horatio B. Hackett, D. D., and Asahel C. Kendrick, D. D. Probably the greater part of the actual work was done by Doctor Conant, but in consultation with his associates. This version had a world-wide influence in promoting and enriching other revisions, especially the Anglo-American or Canterbury. After some years, a third revision was projected, with a view of attaining as nearly as possible to perfection, especially in the matter of English expression; but this project was not carried out, owing to unfavorable circumstances, until after the Saratoga Bible Convention of 1883. The American Baptist Publication Society then proceeded to arrange for the prosecution of the work on the Old Testament; and appointed Alvah Hovey, D. D., John A. Broadus, D. D., and Henry G. Weston, D. D., to prepare an improved edition of the Revised New Testament. This was issued in 1891, and has been pronounced by competent judges the best version of the New Testament existent in our language.

 

And now that the work on the Old Testament has been completed, and the Society is about to publish the whole Bible, it has been thought desirable again to review the New Testament, in order to secure uniformity and consistency of rendering more completely and to make some further improvements, largely of a minor description, so that without changing its character a very excellent version may be made at least a little better. This work has been done with great pains and minute care. The publishers appreciatively acknowledge in connection therewith the services of Rev. J. W. Willmarth, D. D., who likewise aided in reading and correcting the proof.

 

It is no part of a translation pure and simple, to supply a commentary; but some notes are indispensable. Such as appear are, for the most part, explanatory of the text and are not expository.

 

To meet different views as to the transference or translation of "baptizein" the "Improved Edition" was issued in two forms, one using the word "immerse," and the other "baptize." It has been deemed inexpedient to follow this plan in publishing the whole Bible in two forms. Therefore, wherever these words occur, as descriptive of baptism, the commonly used Anglicized form " baptize," etc., is given, followed by the exact translation in parentheses ("immerse"). Both forms are to be regarded as parts of the text of this version, and either or both may be used.

 

The sacred writers used the current style of the languages in which they wrote. A version filled with archaic forms and obsolete or obsolescent words, may be deemed to exhibit a "sacred style," but it misrepresents the manner of the inspired penmen. King James’s version, with all its great excellencies, is in its style in marked contrast with present usage. It is the aim of the Improved Edition, while seeking to avoid undignified or newly coined words and phrases, to give the word of God in intelligible and current English. It is believed that, on account of this feature, the word of life in this version will come home to the heart and mind of the reader with increased force and a more impressive reality.

And now this version of the New Testament is commended to the favor of God and of his people, in the hope that it will enable the English reader, more accurately than in any other, to read "in his own tongue wherein he was born, the wonderful works of God."

Philadelphia, May, 1912.

[e-sword module revision: 2020 July 6]

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