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Originally Posted by etexas  I wanted to ask this since it touches on a couple of threads going (I did not want to jack them though), I know that after the AV was released in 1611, many Puritans detested it and it was nearly a century before it was embraced by the Reformed. What caused the Geneva to fade into the background and the AV to gain wide acceptance? |
Mainly because it was made illegal to print it from what I understand. The A.V. was forced upon them. It worked out for the best though it seems. God has powerfully used the Authorized Version.
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Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psa 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
James Farley, Wilderness Road Baptist Assembly.
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