I know enough Greek to know that this is no more true for the AV than the NASB.
The KJV may sound all nice and majestic, but the NT wasn't written to be that way. It didn't use the beautiful prose of Attic Greek, but the simple common Greek used every day in the marketplace. Our translations should not introduce "majesty" not found in the original.
The KJV may sound all nice and majestic, but the NT wasn't written to be that way.
The AV certainly has a finish and poetry in prose that no other English version after it exhibits.
It was written in the finest hour of the English language.
But this is simply one aspect of why it is a superior Version.
It really is a better translation. One of the chief reasons being that the men who worked on it were in love with God and His Word and walked with Him daily. They really knew the Word from cover to cover.
Didn't know much about the latest movie, soap opera, rock group, or fashion fad, but they knew God and His Word.
They compared Scripture with Scripture and Approached the whole as coming from the mind of a unified Being.
They translated from the known to the unknown and let Scripture comment upon itself.
Most modern versions try too hard to come up with some new thing. And they have been oft translated by fair linguists who are bad theologians.
Why did the 1903 version of the NASB distort the doctrine of inspiration in 2 Tm. 3:16?
Luke's writing is in beautiful classical Greek.
Even Ecclesiates tells us that in the Word of the king there is power---We have the King of English versions in the AV.
Grace and Peace.