Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

according to Leger,[44] and a splendid student,
translated the New Testament into French. Leger
bore testimony that the Olivetan Bible, which
accorded with the Textus Receptus, was unlike the
old manuscripts of the Papists, because they were
full of falsification. Later, Calvin edited a second
edition of the Olivetan Bible. The Olivetan in turn
became the basis of the Geneva Bible in English,
which was the leading version in England in 1611
when the King James appeared.
Diodati, who succeeded Beza in the chair of
Theology at Geneva, translated the Received text
into Italian. This version was adopted by the
Waldenses, although there was in use at that time a
Waldensian Bible in their own peculiar language.
This we know because Sir Samuel Morland, under
the protection of Oliver Cromwell, received from
Leger the Waldensian New Testament which now
lies in Cambridge University library. After the
devastating massacre of the Waldenses in 1655,
Leger felt that he should collect and give into the
hands of Sir Samuel Morland as many pieces of the
ancient Waldensian literature as were available.
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