[FNU LNU]

And, the KJV is common use now is a 1697 (I think) revision of the 1611 version, which was written in Middle English (think Chaucer), that the vast majority of English-speaking people couldn’t read at the point of a gun.

[RegulatorCountry]

And, the KJV is common use now is a 1697 (I think) revision of the 1611 version, which was written in Middle English (think Chaucer), that the vast majority of English-speaking people couldn’t read at the point of a gun.

... and the Challoner Douay-Rheims is a 1752 revision drawing heavily from the KJV, due to the absolute disastrous, transliterated Latin Vulgate-to-English flop that was the original Douay-Rheims.

[hinckley buzzard]

Chaucer died in 1400. The 1611 KJV was basically Shakespearean English, fully familiar to the common Englishman. If you wish to dabble in history try at least to get the dates right.