“King James’s Version had a powerful rival in the Geneva Bible, which was never authorized, but had taken strong hold on the affections of the people because it was made by the English exiles in times of fierce persecution, and under the eyes of the great Reformers, Calvin and Beza, and was accompanied with convenient explanatory notes. It continued to be reprinted, even ‘cum privilegio Regiae majestatis,’ till after the middle of the seventeenth century, and many copies were brought to America by the early immigrants. It passed in all through about one hundred and sixty editions, and when it finally disappeared, the people, according to Fuller, complained that ‘they could not see into the sense of the Scripture for lack of the spectacles of those Genevan annotators.’”

—Philip Schaff, A Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version (1883), 328–329