“Truly, good Christian reader,” the KJV translators wrote, “We never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, or yet to make a bad one, a good one. That is why the King James translators immediately started to revise the 1611 edition and came out with another in 1613 and another in 1629.
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The difference that appears between our translation and our often correcting of them is the thing that we are especially charged with.” It is the translator’s business to continually update the language, not because God’s Word is outdated, but because English changes. They asked, “Who would have ever thought that was a fault? To amend it where he saw cause?” Later they say, “That is our business. The King James translators also wrote about the ongoing need to make new translations and revise old ones. Even if we attack the poorest translation of the Word of God, we are guilty of attacking God’s Word. The King James translators wrote, “Nay, we affirm and avow that the meanest (worst) translation of the Bible in English is the Word of God.” So they believed that every translation was the inspired word of God, no matter how inferior others thought the translation might be. We acknowledge them to have been raised up of God for the building and furnishing of His church.”ĭid the KJV translators think the other English Bibles were inspired? Yes.
Referring to the other English versions they wrote, “Do we condemn the ancient? We are so far from condemning any of their labors that translated before us either in this land or beyond the sea. In the KJV introduction, the Translators said they did not believe in condemning other translations. The Wycliffe English Bible came out in 1382, the Tyndale Bible in 1525, the Coverdale in 1535, the Rogers Bible in 1537, the Great Bible in 1539, the Geneva in 1560 and the Bishops in 1568. When the King James Bible was printed in 1611 there were many other English translations, just as there are today. This is consistent with what Christians have believed throughout church history. So the King James translators believed that the authority of Scripture was in the original manuscripts. They wrote, “The original thereof being from heaven, not from earth the author being God, not man the inditer, the Holy Spirit, not the wit of the Apostles or Prophets.” Later they wrote that all truth must be tried by the original tongues, the Hebrew and Greek.
In the original KJV Bible there was a lengthy introduction titled, “The translators to the reader.” In this introduction, the KJV translators explained their philosophy and beliefs about Bible translations. In fact, the Bible scholars who translated the KJV did not support this “King James Only” belief. Is the King James Version (KJV) the only divinely inspired English Bible? No. Is the King James Version the Only Divinely Inspired Version?
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