Monday, December 26, 2011

Improved Worse

After years of comparing the new translations of the Bible (NIV and NASB mostly) with the AV1611 (KJV), I've come to the same opinion as Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales who said at the 400th anniversary of the Authorized Version at Westminster Abbey, "Our banalities are no improvement on the past; merely an insult to it and a source of confusion in the present. In the case of a cherished religious writing we should leave well alone, especially when it is better than well: when it is great. Otherwise we leave ourselves open to the terrible accusation once levelled by the truemaster of the banal, Samuel Goldwyn: 'You've improved it worse'."

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