To: Cronos
The KJV is derived from Catholic sources -- there are NO other sources as the Church was one until the reformation -- the name 'Roman Catholic' only came about as a result of the Reformation. Where then, does the KJV come from???
The Latin Vulgate was derived from sources which existed before there was a RCC. The Douay Rheims was translated from the Latin.
Like the earlier English translations like Tyndale and Geneva, the King James Version was translated from Greek and Hebrew texts, bypassing the Latin Vulgate . The King James Version Old Testament is based on the Masoretic Text while the New Testament is based on the Textus Receptus as published by Erasmus . The King James Version is a fairly literal translation of these base sources; words implied but not actually in the original source are specially marked (either by being inside square brackets, as shown above, or as italic text).
KJV derived from?
The early Church was
not Roman Catholic.
222 posted on
03/15/2004 11:18:58 AM PST by
OLD REGGIE
((I am a cult of one! UNITARJEWMIAN) Maybe a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE
The early Church was not Roman Catholic.
The early church was called the Roman Catholic church by those who dissented from it's dogma.
223 posted on
03/15/2004 11:20:25 AM PST by
Cronos
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