The King James Version: The Bible Translation that Changed the World

National Review ^ | 07/08/2011 | Rich Lowry

[boven_mutum]

I do not believe that a modern American can consider themselves literate unless they have read the KJV, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.

I agree.

My children were put to bed listening to Alexander Scourby's taped narration of the KJV -- and acquired a mastery of English grammar and syntax that still serves them well. It used to amuse uncles and aunts to hear rich, complex, and beautifully crafted sentences spontaneously coming from 5 year old lips!

[Mr Rogers]

“Foxe’s writings are largely invented out of whole cloth.”

From Wiki:

“Foxe’s great contribution, however, was his compilation of the English martyrs from the period of the Lollards through the persecution of Mary I. Here Foxe had primary sources of all kinds to draw on: episcopal registers, reports of trials, and the testimony of eyewitnesses, a remarkable range of sources for English historical writing of the period.[20]

Nevertheless, Foxe often treated this material casually, and any reader “must be prepared to meet plenty of small errors and inconsistencies.”[21] Furthermore, Foxe did not hold to later notions of neutrality or objectivity. He made unambiguous side glosses on his text, such as “Mark the apish pageants of these popelings” and “This answer smelleth of forging and crafty packing.”[22]

The material contained in the work is generally accurate, although selectively presented. Sometimes he copied documents verbatim; sometimes he adapted them to his own use. Although both he and his contemporary readers were more credulous than most moderns, Foxe presented “lifelike and vivid pictures of the manners and feelings of the day, full of details that could never have been invented by a forger.”[23] Foxe’s method of using his sources “proclaims the honest man, the sincere seeker after truth.”[24]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxe%27s_Book_of_Martyrs

As for Ian Paisley - I don’t know who he is. The person I quoted at length was Brian Moynahan.

I will take it you don’t want to discuss sources, or admit to what Thomas More wrote himself. Ignoring More is the only way to truly exonerate him.

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