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To: RegulatorCountry; afraidfortherepublic; Salvation
I’m not the one seeking to disparage one of the greatest works of English literature that the world has ever seen, your fellows are.

Please show me where I have done that.

There are a number of decent English translations of the Bible today. The KJV remains the gold standard of sheer linguistic skill and beauty, however.

I largely agree with this, in fact I noted that the Challoner revisions relied heavily upon the KJV.

I’ll note that you’ve not provided these purportedly Douay-Rheims derived passages from the KJV, and leave it at that.

The committees explicitly states that former translations are used. Transcripts of notes taken by John Bois indicate the same.

31 posted on 09/09/2014 9:56:30 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; RegulatorCountry; afraidfortherepublic; Salvation

“The committees explicitly states that former translations are used.”

“Scholars tell us that around 90% of the King James Version is from Tyndale’s works with as much as one third of the text being word for word Tyndale. Many of the popular phrases and Bible verses that people quote today are mainly in the language of Tyndale. An example of which is Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers.” The importance of the Tyndale Bible in shaping and influencing the English language is paramount. According to one scholar Tyndale is “the man who more than Shakespeare even or Bunyan has moulded and enriched our language.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible

Not all were used equally, and none of the translations consulted overruled the Greek or Hebrew texts.


47 posted on 09/09/2014 1:13:17 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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