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Originally Posted by etexas  | As these quotes show, highly respected biblical annotators from the Westminster Assembly, and English Puritan circles, thought very highly of the KJV. Its eloquence and worth as a translation had to prove itself, by overcoming the hurdle of Puritan affinity for the Geneva Bible, which was helped by Archbishop Laud's censorship of the Geneva Bible (the last Geneva Bible printing was in 1644 in Amsterdam, making it inaccessible to many on both sides of the pond), but prove itself it did. The KJV is the text also used in the formulation of the Westminster Standards. These men and these documents were certainly influential in America, even beyond Puritan spheres. And while the Geneva Bible was associated with Separatists, the KJV could be read by both Tories and Whigs.
Adam Nicholson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, p. 230: Quote: |
It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the service of a ceremonial and episcopal state church, should become the guiding text of Puritan America. But the translation's lifeblood had been inclusiveness, it was drenched with the splendour of a divinely sanctioned authority, and by the end of the seventeenth century it had come to be treasured by Americans as much as by the British as one of their national texts.
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