To: Titanites
The Authorized King James Bible has been, and continues to be, the God honored, most accurate, and best English translation of the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and preserved original language words of God.
The New Testament of the KJV, though beautiful Elizabethan English, was prepared using a Greek text that was known at the time to be an inferior text, having been assembled from late manuscripts. In some cases the "Greek" was a back-translation from the Vulgate into Greek (thus carrying into the text certain marginal comments made in the Latin that were never in the Greek text to begin with). Calling his product the "received text" was an advertising blurb used its preparer to give it authenticity as he rushed against others to get his into print ahead of theirs.
233 posted on
01/07/2007 9:17:31 PM PST by
aruanan
To: aruanan; Uncle Chip
The Authorized King James Bible has been, and continues to be, the God honored, most accurate, and best English translation of the inspired, inerrant, infallible, and preserved original language words of God. The New Testament of the KJV, though beautiful Elizabethan English, was prepared using a Greek text that was known at the time to be an inferior text, having been assembled from late manuscripts. In some cases the "Greek" was a back-translation from the Vulgate into Greek (thus carrying into the text certain marginal comments made in the Latin that were never in the Greek text to begin with). Calling his product the "received text" was an advertising blurb used its preparer to give it authenticity as he rushed against others to get his into print ahead of theirs. It was the Received Text of the Protestant Reformation, based on the Erasmus text and moving through to Beza.
It was used by Tyndale, and the Geneva and found its English perfection in the King James 1611.
The texts that were used were the correct ones and the Nestle-Alland readings have had to concede on many of them, going back to TR readings.
610 posted on
01/29/2007 4:38:10 AM PST by
fortheDeclaration
(For what saith the scripture? (Rom.4:3))
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