NEW TESTAMENT
REVISED VERSION ON SALE NEW YORK, Feb. 10. A modernised text of the King James version of the New Testament, representing the work of 31 scholars, is now appearing in the bookshops. ) Dean Luther Weigle, of Yale University Divinity School, who directed the project, explained that the revision had been undertaken because the King James version was sometimes erroneous and misleading, and because the word of God was needed to-day. The word must stand forth in clear, meaningful language. The word must not be hidden' in ancient phrases which changed or lost its meaning. Dean Weigle said that in the new version such archaisms as thee, thou, and thine had been abandoned for modern forms, except in language addressed to God. A revised version of the Old Testament would be ready in 1950.
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Evening Star, Issue 25716, 13 February 1946, Page 7
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135NEW TESTAMENT Evening Star, Issue 25716, 13 February 1946, Page 7
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