John Nelson Darby

John Nelson Darby (born the November 18th 1800 and deceased the April 29th 1882) was a preacher protesting. He is mainly known like the founder of the Assemblées Brothers and the Traducteur in several Langue S of the Bible

Biography

He is born in London in the Cité from Westminster within an influential family originating in Ireland. The second first name, Nelson, return to homage to Lord Nelson a family friend. Darby is the nephew of the admiral of the Royal Navy Henry D' Esterre Darby.

It makes brilliant studies in Humanités with Westminster then with Trinity College, Dublin, and converts during its schooling. He thinks one moment to be lawyer, but gives up it quickly, thinking that it would not be compatible with its Foi. It is then ordered Pasteur Anglican in Ireland.

In October 1827, after a serious accident of horse, Darby devoted its convalescence to be thought of the relation between the man and God. It will be born a revolutionary design from it from the institutions connected with the church: for him, no need for an organization to meet between Christian, no need for the Ordination (each believer is made priest, without any Ordination) - he even concludes that the concept of Clergé is a made affront with Jesus-Christ. Quickly, Darby joins people who share the same ideas that him, and they meet periodically in Dublin to break the bread (recall of the sacrifice of Jesus-Christ on the Croix).

Darby remains within the Communion Anglican until in 1836, then it is the rupture, following radical public standpoint, urging the Fidèle S to be diverted official Église. He will write thus in his Étude on the second epistle of Paul with Timothée : “Where is the form without the power, we should not go; and more than that, in a positive direction, we must withdraw such people. ”

Darby travels then in Europe, gathering with the passage of the “brothers” - as old English, brethren , name that the groups are given, elsewhere one also speaks about “pietists”, “darbystes” or “momiers”. He travels then in America, Australia and New Zealand. To note that the brothers are never called “darbystes” themselves, they prefer the term of “brothers” in French, “brethren” in English.

The brothers insist on in particular on the following points:

the Christ only legitimate chief of the Church,
the unit of all the Christians whatever their medium,
need for the Christians for meeting more under various denominations but only in the name of Jesus-Christ, only center of the gathering of the Christian (“where two or three are assembled on my behalf, I am there in the middle of them” MT 18:20),
the Sacerdoce universal, spontaneous and “immediate” (without Médiation of a Clergé),
need for a Foi personal and real.

The groups are in reciprocal Communion and under the direct direction of Jesus-Christ without human intermediary.

He dies in 1882 and is buried with Bournemouth, in the Dorset in England.

Translation of the Bible

Darby which knows six Langue S (Hebrew, Greek old, English, French, German and Italian), translated the Bible, directly starting from the texts Hebrew and Greek, in three languages, English, German and French. The first publication takes place in 1859. This translation has as a characteristic to be very literal, to want above all to respect the text, by sacrificing to the need elegance for the style, even the clearness of the translated text. It writes also a synopsis of the Bible, many biblical comments, doctrinal treaties. Its correspondence is also very abundant.

Cyrus Ingerson Scofield even took as a starting point the Darby Bible for the Bible annotated by him and which is today the Bible with accompanying notes of reference to the the United States.

Darby and dispensationalism

Darby is at the origin of the doctrines of the " Dispensationalisme ", according to which Christ will return to the Fin of times and that a series of events forerunners (war, appearance of a new world order political and economic, return of the Jews on the Promised land to Abraham, arrived of the Antéchrist) will announce the last days of our world: then will take place the battle of Armageddon, confrontation ultimate between the Good and Evil, at the end which truths believers will be saved, and the incroyants will be damnés.

It is to be stressed that these doctrines, popularized by Cyrus Scofield, are very influential in the North-American fundamentalist mediums, in particular among the " Christian Zionists ".

External bonds

the Bible Darby version and of many writings of the “brothers”
Site of information of the Assemblies of “brothers” of French-speaking Europe

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