Sunday, July 6, 2008

King James and the Translators

Just read rule #1: Use the Bishop's Bible whenever possible. Thus, KJV is not really a fresh translation from the Greek and Hebrew, and God's Word was already believed to exist in another Bible.

Of course, the translators themselves were fine with other translations being called God's Word: "Nay, we affirm and avow that the meanest translation of the Bible in English is the word of God."

What else was in the original 1611 KJV, you ask--besides margin notes and the Apocrypha?

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