AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 5

AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE.

THE TERCENTENARY. By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copyright, LONDON, 4th July. The Daily Telegraph advocates a public celebration of the tercentary of the publication of the Authorised Version of the ittble. [The English Bible, which is now recognised as the Authorised Version wherever the English language is spoken, 13 a revision of the Bishops' Bible, begun in 1604 and published in 1611. It arose out of the conference between the High Church and Low Church parties, which was held by James I. at Hampton Court in 1604, being originally proposed by Dr. Reynolds, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the leader and spokesman of the Low Church party, and subsequently on the committee which revised the translation of the Prophets. No real opposition was offered to the proposal, and the King cleverly sketched out on the moment a plan to be adopted. He "wished that some special pains should be taken in that behalf for one uniform translation, | and this to be done by the best learned in both Universities ; after them, to be revised by the bishops and the learned of the Church; and, lastly, to be ratified J by his Royal authority. And so this j whole Church to be bound upon it, and none other." He also particularly desired that no notes should be added by way of comment in the margin. The scholars to whom was entrusted the work were chosen without reference to party.]