2 May 1559 A.D. “Oh oh! He’s Back!” Scots Reformer, John Knox, Returns from Geneva and Steps Ashore in Scotland.
2 May 1559 A.D. “Oh oh! He’s Back!” Scots Reformer, John Knox, Returns from Geneva and Steps Ashore in Scotland. Mr. Myers tells the story. Myers, David T. “May 2: An Invitation to Return to Scotland.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 2 May 2014. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2014/05/may-2/ . Accessed 2 May 2014. May 2: An Invitation to Return to Scotland 2 May, 2014 Consternation! He’s Back! It was the happiest time in the ministry of John Knox in the sixteenth century. Ministering in what he had called “the most perfect school of Christ that ever was on the earth since the days of the apostles,” Geneva, Switzerland was where John Knox spent his exile from his beloved Scotland. It was not a vacation in any sense of the word. He preached three sermons a week, ministered to the English and Scottish exiles there, and studied the Scriptures in the Hebrew and Greek for the purpose of translating a new version to be known as the Geneva B...