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To: MarkBsnr

“...and wrote the KJV.”

That’s nonsense. King James merely authorized the translation, at the request of bishops and theologians. There were 54 scholars involved in the translation, but King James wasn’t one of them. I think he was probably too busy, you know, kinging.


596 posted on 03/27/2011 6:31:41 PM PDT by Boogieman (")
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To: Boogieman
That’s nonsense. King James merely authorized the translation, at the request of bishops and theologians. There were 54 scholars involved in the translation, but King James wasn’t one of them. I think he was probably too busy, you know, kinging.

The history tells us that the KJV was a political entity commissioned at the behest of the King (more likely one of his advisors) because the Geneva Bible was hated, and the Bishop's Bible was not very highly thought of. The translation was approved by a bought and paid for committee of Parliament.

Actually, James was busy being a public catamite, utilizing the public purse. Sir Walter Raleigh joked that King Elizabeth had been succeeded by Queen James, for instance.

655 posted on 03/27/2011 7:55:31 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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