Bible Versions by Eldred Thomas
THE KING JAMES VERSION
Never before or since has there been such an aggregate of scholarship
and spirituality that existed when 47 learned men came together to
translate the King James Version.  Out of the 47, 4 were college
presidents, 6 were bishops, 5 were deans, 30 had doctor's degrees, 39
had master's degrees, 41 were university professors who were all Greek
and Hebrew students, 13 were highly skilled Hebrew scholars of a type
that rarely has existed since, 10 were Greek scholars of rare
scholarship, 3 were Eastern linguists that were as much home with Arabic
and the Eastern languages as their own English.  A literal dynamo of
spiritual power, all of them believed in the plenary verbal inspiration
of the Bible, the divinity of Christ without equivocation, and all of
them were men of prayer.  Some prayed as much as 5 hours per day during
the entire course of their Christian lives.  Only God could have
prepared this group of men for such a monumental task, the results of
which were, in the providence of God, needed for the great evangelistic
and missionary thrust of the succeeding centuries.
These men were divided into seix companies and eachassigned a portion of
scripture to translate.  Each man tranlated each portion, then met to
compare results.  The results were transmitted to each of the other
companies for review and consent.  A slect committee then went over the
whole work, and finally a committee of two of the best linguistics were
assigned the task of final review and approval.  The results were the
best Bible the world has ever possessed which has been used more than
any other Bible to bring the world to Christ.  it still stands as a
masterpiece of scholarship and literary art unexcelled in the history of
the world.
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