![]() ![]() It'll be worth your time to find and read Adam Nicolson's engaging book God's Secretaries. Hundreds upon hundreds of translations later, we still go to King James for the 23rd Psalm and the Lord's Prayer. Building on the achievements of Wycliffe and Tyndale and Coverdale and the Great Bible, the Bishop's Bible, and the Geneva Bible, but significantly different from them at key points, the KJV still reigns supreme. The 1611 Bible is not just one of the great achievements of the English language it's one of England's great gifts to the world. That piece of paper turned 400 years old in May of 2011. It was a gift from my parents (they know me well). In a flat white box surrounded by acid-free paper, I have a single page from the first edition of the King James Bible. Beautiful days in the mountains of panama ![]()
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