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Michael Agricola—A “Man of the Dawn”Awake!—2006 | January
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More important, Michael Agricola helped to usher in another kind of dawn, as he helped make the light of God’s Word clearer to Finnish-speaking people. This is summed up in a memorial poem written for him in Latin after his death: “No ordinary testament did he leave behind him. In place of a testament might be his work—he translated holy books into Finnish—and that work is worthy of great praise.”
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Michael Agricola—A “Man of the Dawn”Awake!—2006 | January
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[Picture on page 22]
Michael Agricola and the first Finnish Bible. A postcard from 1910
[Credit Line]
National Board of Antiquities/Ritva Bäckman
[Picture on page 23]
Agricola’s “New Testament”
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