The King James Version...Why use it?

The King James Version...Why use it? King James’ translators—like their contemporary William Shakespeare—never watched television or played video games. Instead, they learned to read and write in English, Hebrew, Latin, Greek and other languages. They were smarter than today's fifth grader, in other words, and most of today’s PhDs.





Sunday, July 24, 2011

The Great Commandment

When the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Saducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself...
                                                                                          ―St. Matthew 22:34-39

Lawyers, as we all know, love to make things complicated. Many people, for this reason, distrust them intensely. So it was in Jesus’ day with the lawyers, Saducees, and Pharisees.
"The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers," Shakespeare wrote in King Henry VI.

With his simple answers, plus some clever questions of his own, Jesus quieted his legalist detractors more peacably.
When he had finished speaking, "no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions."
                                                                                               ―St. Matthew 22:46.

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