Posted on 05/21/2018 5:27:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Something has happened int he last sixty years. Here is an excerpt from THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER from the old KJV. No longer in some of them.
• 5 A man would think that civility, wholesome laws, learning and eloquence, synods, and Church-maintenance, (that we speak of no more things of this kind) should be as safe as a sanctuary, and [exw beloiV] out of shot, as they say, that no man would lift up the heel, no, nor dog move his tongue against the motioners of them.
• 6 For by the first, (Civility) we are distinguished from brute-beasts led with sensuality:
• 7 by the second, (Wholesome laws) we are bridled and restrained from outrageous behaviour, and from doing of injuries, whether by fraud or by violence:
• 8 by the third, (Learning and eloquence) we are enabled to inform and reform others, by the light and feeling that we have attained unto ourselves:
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