Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode we are talking about bead.

We've discussed him before.

He is the church historian.

He is the first to write in English of church history.

In fact, he's considered the father of all English history.

But we're not talking about bead the church historian.

Let's talk about bead in the Bible, as in bead in the Bible producer,

and bead as in the Bible commentator.

bead received a tradition, the tradition from the early church.

And he also was committed to his studies.

Like the Bereans in the Book of Acts,

he would hold that teaching that he received up to the standard of the Word of God.

And the result of all of that studying?

Well, bead saw it as his role to pass it on,

to write it out, to give it to his fellow students there,

and the monastery, and to pass it on to the next generation.

Who knows?

Maybe generations to come.

So what were some of the actual works that bead did as a Bible commentator

and as a man of Bible study?

The first thing was his involvement with the codexed amiatinus.

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