To choose a modern language Bible in order to understand the KJV better is not as simple as one might suppose, certainly not if one’s choice is the RSV. For, to read that Bible safely, to know just where you really stand as to the text of Scripture, you will have to go through it […]
In this day of modern speech versions flooding the religious book mart, it behooves the knowing, well-read person to be familiar with them, at least at first, by name, and be able to identify their names by their abbreviations. That way you quickly become familiar with them, and begin to see the facility in utilizing […]
Our familiar King James Version of 1611 was revised to produce what we call the American Standard Version of 1901, which, it is said, was in turn revised to produce the new Revised Standard Version of 1952. One would think that with all this revision of revisions that much improvement over the KJV has been […]
A New Version Since the publication of the new “Revised Standard Version”, I had intended to make a few comments in Beacon Lights about it. This is an interesting subject and warrants a more lengthy consideration than can be given in these few lines. The version is authorized by the National Council of the Churches […]