Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books: Exhibited in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The publication in 1611 of the Authorized Version marked an epoch, in the proper sense of that term, in the history of the English Bible. It was a point at which one period ended and another began. It ended a long series of attempts to produce a satisfactory translation of the Scriptures into English It began a period of supremacy, unassailed after the first thirty years of its existence, and unquestioned for two hundred years thereafter, for the translation which then saw the light. It gave to the English nation, and eventually to all the English-speaking peoples throughout the world, a version of the Scriptures as faithful and accurate as the scholarship of the day admitted, and expressed in rose so stately and splendid as to make it one of the great classics 0 the English tongue. For the English language, for English literature, for English religion, and, through English, for the religion of many peoples, nations, and languages in all the earth, the publication of 1611 was in the fullest sense epoch-making.

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