What are some outstanding features of the Makarios Bible?
Makarios they that mourn: for they shall be comforted[Matthew 5:4].
Makarios was told to rid himself of the very thought
However, the Makarios Bible was never released to the general public.
The name Jehovah occurs more than 3,500 times in the Makarios Bible.
The translators of the Scriptures were Mikhail Iakovlevich Glukharev, known as Archimandrite Makarios, and Gerasim Petrovich Pavsky.
Makarios was told to rid himself of the very thought
of translating the Hebrew Scriptures into the Russian language.
Makarios and Pavsky were not the first to see the need for the Bible in the common language of the people.
In addition to Makarios' translation of most of the Hebrew Scriptures,
this edition of the Bible contains Pavsky's translation of Psalms as well as the Orthodox Church- authorized synodal translation of the Greek Scriptures.