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Book: In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture
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  1. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    Yet the triumph of the King James Bible was not limited to Great Britain {within which the translation continues to be known as the "Authorized Version"}.
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  2. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    So why did the King James translators use an archaic verbal form in what was meant to be a modern translation? Again, the answer seems to lie with the rules provided for the translators, which more or less bound them to use the language of 1525 in their translations. A comparison of Tyndale's translation of Matthew 7:1–7 {see above} with the King James Bible shows that precisely the same older Middle English verbal endings are found in both translations. In Tyndale's time, they were in general use; by 1611, they were virtually obsolete.
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  3. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    changes-the use of "ye," "thou," and so forth remains unchanged. The King James translators simply did not believe that they had the authority to make changes reflecting developments in the English language, and so continued to reproduce the English of nearly three generations earlier.
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    A careful study of the court records of the northern English city of Durham suggests that "you" had replaced "thou" as the normal form of address in spoken English by about 1575.
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  5. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall {i} cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. When tyrants cannot prevail by deceit, they burst into open rage. The suggestion that it was lawful to disobey or deceive kings would hardly have pleased James I of England. Yet it fitted well into the growing trend within Calvinist circles to argue for the resistance to tyrants, whether by force or deception.
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  6. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    the marginal notes to the Geneva Bible did more than provide theological elucidation at points of difficulty-the "most profitable annotations upon the hard places" mentioned on the title page of the work. They offered political comments on the text, which could easily be applied to the political situation under James I-and James cordially detested what he found in those notes.
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  7. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    The English of 1611 is not the English of the twenty-first century. It can mislead us, simply because English words have changed their meaning. For example, consider the sentence: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep {1 Thessalonians 4:15}. A modern reader would find this puzzling, in that the 1611 meaning of the word "prevent" does not correspond to its modern sense. For the King James translators, "prevent" meant what we now understand by "precede" or "go before"-not "hinder." In that linguistic change now means that the King James Bible has the potential to mislead and confuse, there is a clear case for revision of the translation.
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  8. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    Noah Webster, responsible for an influential dictionary that helped establish the distinctive aspects of American spelling. Webster was alarmed by a series of biblical passages that he regarded as "offensive," "unseemly," and "distasteful." Words to which he took particular exception include "piss," "privy member," "prostitute," "teat," "whore," and "womb."
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  9. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    No Marginal Notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek Words, which cannot without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the Text.
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  10. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    Further concerns were expressed over the king's increasingly obvious homosexual tendencies, which led to certain royal favorites being granted favors that were the subject of much comment and envy. Robert Carr, some twenty years younger than James, was one such favorite: he became the earl of Somerset in 1613. Although James fondled and kissed his favorites in what was widely regarded as a lecherous manner in public, the court was prepared to believe that his private behavior was somewhat more restrained.
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  11. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    The explicit royal stipulation that all forms of annotation would be excluded ensured that the difficulties created for the establishment by the Geneva Bible would be avoided-or so, at any rate, it was thought.
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  12. Alister E. McGrath _ In the Beginning: The Story of

    Tyndale was strangled in October 1536, and his dead body then burned at the stake. Tyndale's fate is an important reminder that biblical translation was more than just a scholarly challenge in the early sixteenth century-it was, in Tyndale's case, illegal, dangerous, and ultimately fatal.
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