Practical Religion: Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians

It's a breath of fresh air to read someone who is not afraid to offend the sensibilities of the lost, calls sin sin, challenges formal Christless "Churchianity" to put up or shut up, and shakes the saved from slumber. His words pierce deeply and convict, and yet are written from an aching heart of a wise pastor and with the spirit of Christ's love for precious souls facing everlasting "unquenchable fire," "the worm that never dies," and "the gnashing of teeth."

Ryle does not stray one step from the Scriptures — you will not find a iota of self-help feel-good Christianity that is afraid to quote the stronger words of Jesus in order "to reach the world." On the contrary, he assaults the watered-down religion with all the might of his considerable intellect and vigor. In its place, he calls his readers to the old truth of the Gospel and paints in vivid colors the splendor of the inheritance awaiting God's children.

Ryle lived one hundred years ago but his words ring true to this day.

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Practical Religion: Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians

It's a breath of fresh air to read someone who is not afraid to offend the sensibilities of the lost, calls sin sin, challenges formal Christless "Churchianity" to put up or shut up, and shakes the saved from slumber. His words pierce deeply and convict, and yet are written from an aching heart of a wise pastor and with the spirit of Christ's love for precious souls facing everlasting "unquenchable fire," "the worm that never dies," and "the gnashing of teeth."

Ryle does not stray one step from the Scriptures — you will not find a iota of self-help feel-good Christianity that is afraid to quote the stronger words of Jesus in order "to reach the world." On the contrary, he assaults the watered-down religion with all the might of his considerable intellect and vigor. In its place, he calls his readers to the old truth of the Gospel and paints in vivid colors the splendor of the inheritance awaiting God's children.

Ryle lived one hundred years ago but his words ring true to this day.

Features of the Kindle edition

This OSNOVA publication features the usual excellence in the formatting and arrangement that readers have come to expect from OSNOVA publications. The publication incorporates an active table of contents and 5-way controller navigation between chapters, which make it easy to navigate to any place in the book and makes it for a pleasurable reading experience.

КНИГИ СВЯЩЕННОГО ПИСАНИЯ
ВЕТХОГО И НОВОГО ЗАВЕТА

Полный текст, включая неканонические книги,
Синодального перевода

Перевод книг Священного Писания на русский язык, известный как синодальный, был осуществлен в течение XIX века по постановлению Святейшего правительствующего синода Русской православной церкви. Первое полное издание перевода вышло в 1876 г.

Перевод остается и до сего дня единственным общепризнанным переводом Священного Писания на русский язык и широко используется не только в православной церкви, но и в других христианских конфессиях, использующих русский язык в России и за рубежом.

Данное издание Синодального перевода включает Ветхий и Новый Заветы Священного Писания. Причем Ветхий Завет состоит как из канонических, так и неканонических фрагментов и книг.

Издание для Киндла от Основы включает методы навигации Direct Verse Jump и Direct Verse Jump 2, которые позволяют открывать любой стих Библии в считанные секунды. Для этого нужно нажать клавишу Menu, выбрать Index, и латинскими буквами набрать двух- или трех-буквенное сокращение книги Библии (список сокращений можно найти по вышепреведенной ссылке или в Содержании), затем пробел, номер главы, снова пробел, номер стиха, и наконец нажать ввод. Например для того, чтобы открыть Иоанна 3:16 нужно ввести jn 3 16 и нажать ввод в Индексе.

The Russian Synodal Bible is the most commonly used translation of the Bible by all main Christian denominations in Russia.

The translation was done by four Russian Orthodox theological academies: in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, and Kiev under the supervision of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. The complete work was published in 1876.

This edition includes Apocrypha. Please note that the RSB often differs from most English translations in chapter and verse numbering (for example, Psalm 119 in English translations is numbered as Psalm 118 in the RSB) and book titles (for example, 1 and 2 Samuel in most English Bibles are 1 and 2 Kings in the RSB, while 1 and 2 Kings in most English Bibles are 3 and 4 Kings in the RSB).

WARNING: Kindle 3 suffers from a software bug, which under certain conditions reveals a part of a tag on the screen as extraneous characters. This culprit does not reveal itself with books in Latin alphabet or on Kindle 2/DX. This is a minor blemish and does not detract much from the reading experience. Amazon has been made aware of the issue and, hopefully, they will fix it.

The Holy Bible
Chinese Union Version (traditional)

Note: This book has not been tested on Kindle 1 and 2

Features of this version of this Kindle Bible:

• Direct Verse Jump and Direct Verse Jump 2, two revolutionary new methods to open the exact verse you need in mere seconds
• two other ways to navigate between books and chapters: (i) using a hyperlinked table of contents; and (ii) pressing the 5-way controller right or left to move between books and chapters of the Bible. Once you learn all four navigation methods, you will be able to open any verse in your Kindle Bible as fast as (or even faster than) in your paper copy
• easy to determine where you are in the Bible
• as any Kindle book, this Kindle Bible is searchable; however, when you first install the file please wait for the Kindle to index the whole Bible (most of the time about 10 minutes; however, sometimes up to 8-10 hours). The file is large and it takes a long time to index. For this reason, the DVJ-1 navigation method will be available only after the book has been indexed; however, DVJ-2 will be available immediately

Direct Verse Jump 2:

1. Press the Menu button.

2. Select Index.

3. Type the two- or three-character abbreviation for the desired book (full list is also found in the table of contents), followed by a space. Use the exact book abbreviations.

4. Type the chapter number, followed by a space, and the verse number.

5. Select the verse and press Enter.

WARNING: Kindle 3 suffers from a software bug, which under certain conditions reveals a part of a tag on the screen as extraneous characters. This culprit does not reveal itself with books in Latin alphabet or on Kindle 2/DX. This is a minor blemish and does not detract much from the reading experience. Amazon has been made aware of the issue and, hopefully, they will fix it.

Características de esta versión de la Biblia Reina-Valera 1909:

• El Verse Jump directo (Saltar al Verso), un nuevo método revolucionario para abrir el verso exacto que necesita en cuestión de segundos
• Otras dos maneras de navegar entre libros y capítulos: (i) mediante una tabla de contenido con hipervínculos, y (ii) pulsando el joystick a la derecha o a la izquierda para moverse entre los libros de la Biblia. Una vez que aprenda los tres métodos de navegación, será capaz de abrir cualquier verso de la Biblia en su Kindle tan rápido como (o incluso más rápido que) en la copia en papel
• Fácil determinar dónde usted está en la Biblia.
• El texto se divide en los apartados de la cohesión del texto.
• Como cualquier libro en el dispositivo Kindle (no productos de software de Kindle en el PC u otros dispositivos), la Biblia RV puede ser de búsqueda; sin embargo, la primera vez que instala el expediente por favor espere el Kindle para indexar toda la Biblia (10 minutos). El expediente es grande y se tarda mucho tiempo en el índice. Por esta razón, el método de navegación DVJ estará disponible sólo después de que el libro ha sido indexado.

Tenga en cuenta que usted debe poner el número del capítulo, incluso para los libros que tienen un solo capítulo.

Features of this version of the Reina-Valera Bible 1909:

• Direct Verse Jump and Direct Verse Jump 2, two revolutionary new methods to open the exact verse you need in mere seconds
• two other ways to navigate between books and chapters: (i) using a hyperlinked table of contents; and (ii) pressing the 5-way controller right or left to move between books and chapters of the Bible. Once you learn all four navigation methods, you will be able to open any verse in your Kindle Bible as fast as (or even faster than) in your paper copy
• easy to determine where you are in the Bible
• the text is broken into paragraphs for cohesion of the text
• as any book on the Kindle device (not Kindle software products on PC or other devices), the KJV Bible is searchable; however, when you first install the file please wait for the Kindle to index the whole Bible (most of the time about 10 minutes; however, sometimes up to 8-10 hours). The file is large and it takes a long time to index. For this reason, the DVJ navigation method will be available only after the book has been indexed; however DVJ-2 will be available immediately

If you have any questions or concerns at all about this (or any other of OSNOVA publication), please email us in English at osnova@gmail.com

This Kindle edition from OSNOVA includes a number of navigational aids such as Direct Verse Jump and hyperlinked table of contents; short instructions on their use are included in the book itself with more detailed instructions available here.

THE NEW TESTAMENT was written in Koine Greek during the first century AD. From the time of its original revelation, handwritten copies continually were prepared in order tomaintain and preserve that original text into the modern era. All copies made prior to the invention of movable-type printing were made by hand, resulting in various scribal alterations, most of these being of a minor nature. Although the autographs no longer exist and no two manuscript copies are completely identical, sufficient evidence exists by which one can produce an accurate representation of the original text by comparing and evaluating the overall manuscript consensus. Robinson and Pierpont have taken the utmost care in preparing that text for this edition.

Various other methods for restoration of the original NT text have fallen short of their goal, in part due to methodological subjectivity, and in part to a presuppositional bias against the claims of the Byzantine Textform. The texts created under such a bias tend to be based on only a handful of favored manuscripts, and fail to consider all transmissional factors in the preservation of the original text. As a result, the modern eclectic texts tend to preserve more of a caricature than the essence of the originals.

In contrast, Robinson and Pierpont have applied many of the same methods of textual criticism to their task, but without the anti-Byzantine bias. Their method of "reasoned transmissionalism" is based on the wider scope of manuscript transmission throughout history. The preface of this edition explains the basic method by which the present editors have arrived at their basic text. The appendix contains Robinson's essay, "The Case for Byzantine Priority," which presents a rationale for and defense of the theory and methodology that has been applied in the preparation of this edition.

About the Authors

MAURICE A. ROBINSON began studying Greek in 1965, and NT textual criticism in 1966. His original training followed the perspective of reasoned eclecticism, which he continued to study and practice for nearly a decade.

Specialized study in the field of textual criticism took place from 1971-77 under Kenneth W. Clark, then emeritus of Duke University. During this time he received the degrees of Master of Divinity (1973) and Master of Theology (1975) from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina. In 1982, he was awarded the Ph.D. in NT textual criticism by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, Texas, with his dissertation entitled Scribal Habits among Manuscripts of the Apocalypse.

As a result of his studies under Clark, he was slowly led to shift his position from reasoned eclecticism to Byzantine-priority, and in 1976 joined with William Pierpont in the quest to establish an accurate Byzantine text and viable underlying theory. Since that time, he has presented many papers and articles dealing with NT textual criticism at various venues.

Robinson is currently Senior Professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina.

WILLIAM G. PIERPONT began studying the Greek New Testament in 1932, and was trained in the Westcott-Hort theory and method at Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. The closer examination of the manuscripts and theoretical perspectives underlying that approach led him into a life-long study of NT textual criticism that in the mid-1960s resulted in his support and defense of the Byzantine Textform.

Pierpont worked for over 40 years as a research engineer at Beech Aircraft in Wichita. Even while employed at Beech, Pierpont was able not only to conduct an intensive study of Greek NT textual criticism, but also to acquire a reading and speaking knowledge of more than two dozen world languages, including Polish and Mandarin Chinese. Following his retirement, Pierpont devoted the remainder of his life to text-critical and related investigative work.

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