Subject: KJV Only Radicals |
Bible Note: Deer Mr. Kalos - You talked about that there Geneva's Bible. Us folks down hear in the Ozarks ain't right sure which Geneva it was that wrote a Bible. We got 3 Genevas in our hollow, but two of them cain't write a lick and the other one be Geneva Louise Weehunt and she ain't no great hand a writin. ...... Now us folks down here is what them city slickers call simple folks, just plain old country hicks to be honest about it, and we cain't hardly read no English a tall, except fer the Parson he does tolerably well and Miss Peabody the school teacher, she does pretty good. Facts is, she went over to that big univercity at Fayetteville for pert near a whole year and they learned her a whole lot. But the rest of us you see ain't all that versed up in book readin' and we has to git a hold of a Bible that don't have them begots and wherefores and thou arts and all sich as that. Ole King James he was likely a purty smart feller but he sure did talk funny and we jest cain't understand what it is he's trying to git acrost in that Bible of his'n. Them English folks never did speak English so a body could understand everything they was trying to say. ..... Well, let me tell you something. A few years back, I don't recollect just when, Luke Gray, my neighbor that lives across the creek from us, he went down to the big city of Fort Smith and he chanced upon a Bible that was...what do you call it?....trancelated I think it is....by some Americans that talk the kind of English that people is supposed to talk today in this country, not the way they tried to talk it way back 400 years ago in a foreign country (England). So Luke up and bought one and brung it home. He said it was a heap easier to understand than the one that English king wrote. He loaned it to me for a few days after he had wore the new off it and I kinda took a shine to it myself. So I hitched the mules to my wagon and went to Fort Smith and got me one. It's called...let me look here and see what it says...it's called the New American Standard Bible. I like it a whole lot and sure like seeing the word "American" in the title. But that's kinda the way I am I guess. Seems to me like a Bible trancelated by folks that speak American is kinda nice. Besides, I think we got jest as good Bible scollars as England does. Well, thanks a heap for listening to me and be sure to come to see us when you can. The turnip greens sure is good this time of a year. --Hank |