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To: Corin Stormhands; Full Court
Not at all, the KJV was described as THE Bible for everyman.

The King James Bible was published in the year Shakespeare began work on his last play, The Tempest. Both the play and the Bible are masterpieces of English, but there is one crucial difference between them. Whereas Shakespeare ransacked the lexicon, the King James Bible employs a bare 8000 words—God’s teaching in homely English for everyman."

The term 'everyman' is referring to the 'common man'

As defined in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary,(pg.539) not to all human beings.

The context makes that meaning very clear.

I know you are too well educated to have thought otherwise.

595 posted on 05/27/2006 9:17:02 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))
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To: fortheDeclaration

I know you are too well educated to ignore how things are used in context.


632 posted on 05/27/2006 7:48:04 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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