From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Sun Dec 19 1999 - 06:13:41 EST
In a message dated 12/19/99 5:58:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
jesuslover@neteze.com writes:
<<
Hi Nigel,
The KJV uses the Byzantine text, which includes the majority of manuscripts
and the
AV, which was a response in America to England's Revised Version (RV) uses
the
Alexandrian text, some of which is older, it was revised by Wescott and
Hort, and
was used for these two newer translations. I am not sure about specific
differences,
but I think that it was the AV that translated virgin as young girl in
Isaiah.
in Christ -chris
N & RJ Hanscamp wrote:
> Speaking of KJV, can someone tell me what the difference is between KJV and
AV,
> and if there is none, which does SBL/JBL prefer in their publications. I
> couldn't find any reference to it in their "guides for contributors"
>
>>
I believe you are confusing the AV (Authorised Version) with the RSV (Revised
Standard Version). The AV is the same as the KJV the designation as the
authorized version is due to its having been authorized by King James 1. I
include the preface to the KJV.
The Holy Bible
King James Version
to the most high and mighty prince
James
by the Grace of God,
King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland
Defender of the Faith, &c.
The Translators of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy, and Peace through Jesus
Christ our Lord
Great and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which Almighty
God, the Father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of England, when
first he sent Your Majesty’s Royal Person to rule and reign over us. For
whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well upon our Sion,
that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of most
happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have
overshadowed this Land, that men should have been in doubt which way they
were to walk; and that it should hardly be known, who was to direct the
unsettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun in his
strength, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists, and gave
unto all that were well affected exceeding cause of comfort; especially when
we beheld the Government established in Your Highness, and Your hopeful Seed,
by an undoubted Title, and this also accompanied with peace and tranquility
at home and abroad.
But among all our joys, there was no one that more filled our hearts, than
the blessed continuance of the preaching of God’s sacred Word among us; which
is that inestimable treasure, which excelleth all the riches of the earth;
because the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time pent in this
transitory world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal happiness
which is above in heaven.
Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and
to continue it in that state, wherein the famous Predecessor of Your Highness
did leave it: nay, to go forward with the confidence and resolution of a Man
in maintaining the truth about Christ, and propagating it far and near, is
that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your Majesty’s
loyal and religious people unto You, that Your very name is precious among
them: their eye doth behold You with comfort,and they bless You in their
hearts,as that sanctified Person who, under God, is the immediate author of
their true happiness. And this their contentment doth not diminish or decay,
but every day increaseth and taketh strength, when they observe, that the
zeal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not slack or go backward,
but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself abroad in the farthest parts
of Christendom, by writing in defence of the truth, (which hath given such a
blow unto that man of sin, as will not be healed), and every day at home, by
religious and learned discourse, by frequenting the house of God, by hearing
the Word preached, by cherishing the Teachers thereof, by caring for the
Church, as a most tender and loving nursing Father.
There are infinite arguments of this right Christian and Religious affection
in Your Majesty but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the
vehement and perpetuated desire of the accomplishing and publishing of this
work, which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty. For when Your
Highness had once out of deep judgment apprehended how convenient it was,
that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comparing of the
labors, both in our own, and other foreign Languages of many worthy men who
went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy
Scriptures into the English Tongue; Your Majesty did never desist to urge and
to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work might be hastened,
and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner, as a matter
of such importance might justly require.
And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our labors, it
being brought unto such a conclusion, as that we have great hopes that the
Church of England shall reap good fruit thereby; we hold it our duty to offer
it to Your Majesty, not only as to our King and Sovereign, but as to the
principal Mover and Author of the work: humbly craving of Your most Sacred
Majesty, that since things of this quality have ever been subject to the
censures of ill meaning and discontented persons, it may receive approbation
and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is,
whose allowance and acceptance of our labors shall more honor and encourage
us, than all the calumniations and hard interpretations of other men shall
dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish
persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor
instruments to make God’s holy Truth to be yet more and more known unto the
people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on
the other side, we shall be maligned by self-conceited Brethren, who run
their own ways, and give liking unto nothing, but what is framed by
themselves, and hammered on their anvil; we may rest secure, supported within
by the truth and innocency of a good conscience, having walked the ways of
simplicity and integrity, as before the Lord; and sustained without, by the
powerful protection of Your Majesty’s grace and favor, which will ever give
countenance to honest and Christian endeavours against bitter censures and
uncharitable imputations.
The Lord of Heaven and earth bless Your Majesty with many and happy days,
that, as his heavenly hand hath enriched Your Highness with many singular and
extraordinary graces, so You may be the wonder of the world in this latter
age for happiness and true felicity, to the honor that Great God, and the
good of his Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour.
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.
gfsomsel
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