But in Augustine time there was no "Bible". But He did pickup a copy of a letter to "Romans" when the children in The Play yard, start singing "TOLLEL LEGE" "TOLLEL LEGE", He heard them singing, and he "Look down" and saw a copy of the Letter to Christians in "Rome" and He read it. And got saved.
"Tollel Lege" "Tollel Lege" = "pick up Read" "Pick up Read". for
John Calvin was "A AUGUSTINIAN" And for me, "PloughBoy", I once was know as
"The AUGUSTINIAN Monk" "My Avatar" I study "Augustine" for years. [
I ate and slept "Augustine", many years ago.]
Tolle lege
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Tolle Lege is
Latin for the command “take up and read” that St. Augustine heard from a mysterious voice during his conversion to Christianity, which he took to mean read the first passage he came across in [
a copy of the Letter to The Christians in "ROME"].Feb 5, 2015
When did the word bible start being used?
The biblical scholar F. F. Bruce notes that John Chrysostom appears to be the first writer (in his Homilies on Matthew, delivered
between 386 and 388) to use the Greek phrase ta biblia ("the books") to describe both the Old and New Testaments together.
Augustine, also called Saint Augustine of Hippo, original Latin name Aurelius Augustinus, (born
November 13, 354, Tagaste, Numidia [now Souk Ahras, Algeria]—died August 28, 430, Hippo Regius [now Annaba, Algeria]; feast day August 28), bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, one of the Latin Fathers of the Church and perhaps …When was the first complete Bible made?
5th century
The Muratorian Canon, which is believed to date to
200 A.D., is the earliest compilation of canonical texts resembling the New Testament. It was not until the 5th century that all the different Christian churches came to a basic agreement on Biblical canon.Apr 23, 2019
Gutenberg Bible, also called 42-line Bible or Mazarin Bible, the first complete book extant in the West and one of the earliest printed from movable type, so called after its printer, Johannes Gutenberg, who completed it
about 1455 working at Mainz, Germany.
Like I have said,, I did not trust the church and i did not trust the BIBLE, I did a "intense" research how it came to be and I researched of the collective "committees' the people who "complied" and who put them together, even the "committees" who compile The "1611" AV. and why they were chosen.
We did not have a "public" internet service, When I learn all of this stuff. The internet comes up short and been "polluted" when referring to "Biblical elements" all our internet "lexicons" "encyclopedias" and about many past "Reliable Biblical SCHOLARS, of elements have been left out or curve with "The Quill".
But does it really matters? The answer is=== Not really. Why? "Because "GOD is GOD".
All By HIMSELF" and "The GATES of HELL Cannot Prevail Against THE CONGREGATION of GOD, The one that "Christ" is Building.
But, "Fear Not, Little Flock"
"For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. Yet seek ye his kingdom, and these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Go TELL JOHN:
New King James Version
Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, THE POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM.
I am not Subtracting But adding, That the Poor may hear.
It is the FATHER Good Pleasure to "GIVE You THE KINGDOM That IS TO COME" and Not This "DIME STORE" Perishing world.
So fret not Little FLOCK, OUR GOD HAS SOMETHING BETTER, than what the god of this world has to offer that fades away. IT May be Called "FOOLS GOLD" A gold, the things that fade away.
"THEY KINGDOM WILL COME THY WILL, WILL BE DONE"