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To: Mr Rogers
“No Bishop. No King.”

It is not clear what you mean by this. What is your intention here? Where did you get this from? Give us a citation that testifies that James Stuart said this, please, and what he meant by it if he did.

91 posted on 05/01/2020 5:27:03 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

“No Bishop. No King.” / “It is not clear what you mean by this.”

“If bishops were put out of power, “I know what would become of my supremacy,” James objected. “No bishop, no King. When I mean to live under a presbytery I will go to Scotland again.” Willson, p. 198, p. 207.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I_and_religious_issues

King James had lived in Scotland where bishops ruling the church had been rejected. He foresaw - correctly - that if a congregation could choose who led it, the a nation might think about choosing its ruler: “No Bishop. No King.”

So he instructed the translators to use words supporting a top-down chain of command in the church:

“Another rule sought to control the ecclesiastical language of the new version: ‘The old ecclesiastical words [are] to be kept, viz. the word “church” not to be translated “congregation” etc.’ The implementation of this rule was to be a persistent source of Puritan objections to the KJV, as Puritans, appropriating Tyndale’s argument, preferred ‘congregation’ to ‘church’, ‘wash’ to ‘baptise’, ‘elder’ or ‘senior’ to ‘bishop’and ‘minister’ to ‘priest’.”

https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/uploads/content/bible_in_transmission/files/2011_summer/BiT_Summer_2011_Campbell.pdf

It is a case where the KJV deliberately translated things improperly to fit the politics of the day.


98 posted on 05/01/2020 7:08:18 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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