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1 | Is the KJV "Supreme"? | Ps 12:6 | EdB | 13232 | ||
I would like a KJV person to tell me they knew what was going on in ACTS 27:15-21 without having it explained or reading it in a commentary. We just don't use those words anymore who knew "helps" meant cables, and they were trying to bring in a skiff, and they where afraid of being stuck in the Sytris sandbar off the coast of Africa? And I still don't know if they put the sail up or down. | ||||||
2 | Is the KJV "Supreme"? | Ps 12:6 | Hank | 13235 | ||
Ed, while the King James Bible is a masterful work for which no truly literate person can have anything but the highest regard, it has come to the time in its long and distinguished history when it must consider signing up for a well-deserved retirement.... In a post on this same thread a couple of weeks ago, speaking of the King James I said, "Written in the Jacobean English of its time it is ever-increasingly difficult to understand by the majority of modern readers...the time is approaching when the King James will be unintelligible without special training in the archaic language."....... To add to your difficulties in understanding the passage in Acts, try this one: "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing." (Ps.5:6)..... or this: "But king Solomon loved many strange women." (1 Kings 11:1)...... and another: "The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas." (Ezekiel 27:25)....... In a language where comfort means strengthen ... suffer means let ... let means prevent ... and prevent means precede, we tread into paths of confusion very quickly with the King James unless we carry a word map under one arm and a good modern translation under the other...... Nevertheless, having said all that, I still maintain that for the sheer beauty and majesty of its prose and the music and meter of its poetry, the King James Bible stands alone. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Is the KJV "Supreme"? | Ps 12:6 | Makarios | 13277 | ||
Dear Hank, I agree! The KJV will always stand alone in history as the first English Bible! What an excellent way to represent the English language.. You have made reference to a few verses, and I'll put them side by side with the NASB equivalent just to see how far English has come in 400 years. (KJV) Psalm 5:6 "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man." (NASB) Psalm 5:6 "You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit." (KJV) 1 Kings 11:1 "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;" (NASB) 1 Kings 11:1 "Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women," (KJV) Ezekiel 27:25 "The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas." (NASB) Ezekiel 27:25 "The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very glorious In the heart of the seas." Indeed, the KJV can retire alongside the Vulgate, receiving its due share of unprecedented fame and grandeur, leaving a legacy that will never be matched.. Leaving the scene for these new translations to make their way. --Nolan |
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