400-Year-Old Bible Discovered In Church’s Cabinet
教会的储藏柜发现了400年前的古旧圣经
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Thursday, July 12, 2018
Officials at an Anglican church in New Zealand were shocked to discover they had been housing a 400-year-old Bible in a cabinet – and they still don’t know how it got there.
新西兰圣公会的领袖们很震惊地在教会的储藏柜里发现了一本拥有400年历史的圣经—他们至今不知道圣经怎么在那的。
The congregation, St Peter's Church in Palmerston North, was founded in the early 1900s. The 1616 King James edition Bible was discovered in a cupboard in 2012 wrapped in a towel, and was pulled out again this month ahead of National Bible Day on July 15, according to the New Zealand website Stuff.co.nz.
北帕默斯顿的圣彼得教堂成立于20世纪初，根据新西兰网站的资料，2012年发现了1616杰姆斯国王版圣经，该圣经被包裹在毛巾里置于柜子中，7月15日在全国圣经日之前被再次展出。
“I'm not sure what place an old Bible would have had in a new church,” said Amy Houben of St. Peter’s, referencing the age of the congregation and the confusion over its placement there.
提到教堂的年代和圣经放置地方的混乱时，圣彼得教堂的艾米胡本说，“我不确定一本旧的圣经会出现在新教堂的何处。”
Since being found, it’s been given a new cover and placed in a display cabinet, Stuff reported.
工作人员报道，圣经被发现后就被换了新的封面，并被放在展示橱窗里。
“I feel quite sorry for this old girl in a way,” Houben said. “They were made to be read and held. They weren't made to be locked in a glass coffin.”
胡本说：“某种程度上我对圣经感到亏欠，圣经本是被大家拥有和阅读的，不应该被锁在玻璃柜里。”
One theory is that someone who emigrated to New Zealand from Great Britain brought it.
一种说法是，这本圣经从大不列颠移民到新西兰的人带来的。
“It almost seems out of place having it down in little, old New Zealand,” Houben said. “It's got old bones and a good heart, but it's from a whole different world.”
“看起来这本圣经并不适合新西兰这个古老的小地方，”胡本说，“它有古老的骨骼和良善的内在，但却来自完全不同的世界。”
Supposedly, only 30 copies of the print run of the 1616 Bible still exist. It was printed barely 150 years after the Gutenberg Bible, which was released in the 1450s. 
据推测，只有30份1616版圣经仍然存，这版圣经是在1450年出版《古腾堡圣经》后150年才印刷的。
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