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Originally Posted by jamesdsweet79
Must be a Catholic version... Are there about 7 extra books in the Old Testament? They omit "For thine is the kingdon the power and the glory forever" from the Lord's prayer too.
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No, you are thinking of the Apocrypha that was added during the Council of Trent, roughly 25 years after the Protestant Reformation got underway. The Anglican Communion also includes it in their bibles, even thought it is considered to be noncanonical.
The King James Bible is indeed riddled with errors. But when it comes to soaring prose, it has no match. Shakespeare's plays, The Book Of Common Prayer, and the King James Bible had a profound effect on the way that we speak and write today.
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By the way, I do want to comment on the tongue-in-cheek usages of
Thee,
Thou,
Thy, and
Thine on this thread. I understand the desire to make fun of archaic language. At the same time, you may not realize something about those pronouns and their possessives.
At the time, they meant a much more personal and intimate relationship with the speaker's audience, much like the German equivalent,
Du, or the Russian,
Ti, does today. In fact, most languages have that distinction. You'll find dozens and dozens of example in French, German, Russian, et al, literature where one person agonizes over whether he should address someone else, usually a would-be lover, in intimate or formal terms. Only in the late 18th and early 19th century did English usage of
Thee and
Thou fall out of favor as more formality began creeping into the language. Now, oddly enough, we tend to think the usage of those words as being stuffy and highfaluting, when the exact opposite was actually the case.
So in everyday conversation, only close and trusted people were addressed with
Thee, as opposed to the more formal and distant
You. That's why, in its usage, the KJV really expressed a theological concept that is lost today in our language, namely the very personal experience of God speaking to a loved one--and vice versa. For example, the Quakers clung to its usage for a long time, chiefly because it demonstrated our brotherhood and sisterhood in Christ.
I know there's no going back, but it's still sad to me that our language has lost some of its richness and nuance in this arena.
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