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NASB | Job 27:10 "Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Job 27:10 "Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times? |
Subject: Solemnity of Phrase |
Bible Note: I used to wonder about the use of King James English that was common in previous generations. Although, as a Jew, I had not heard anyone do this, yet I have friends who assure me that it was a very common practice in public prayer years ago. Recently I came across the following quote. Imagine a time when people were so well versed in the Scriptures -- in letter and in content -- that the very phrases of the Word surfaced in their prayers, since no other expression seemed adequate. Such a practice was not without precedent, since even the NT abounds with OT expressions. "There is a certain Coldness and Indifference in the Phrases of our European Languages, when they are compared with the Oriental Forms of Speech; and it happens very luckily, that the Hebrew Idioms run into the English Tongue with a particular Grace and Beauty. Our Language has received innumerable Elegancies and Improvements, from that Infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the Poetical Passages in Holy Writ. They give a Force and Energy to our Expressions, warm and animate our Language, and convey our Thoughts in more ardent and intense Phrases, than any that are to be met with in our own Tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of Diction, that it often sets the Mind in a Flame, and makes our Hearts burn within us. How cold and dead does a Prayer appear, that is composed in the most Elegant and Polite Forms of Speech, which are natural to our Tongue, when it is not heightened by that Solemnity of Phrase, which may be drawn from the Sacred Writings." --Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 405 (June 14, 1712) |
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