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From: bnr-fos!bmerh490!hwt@watmath.waterloo.edu (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Seventeenth Century Language
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Both the discussion of editions here, and the Book of Common Prayer/
Book of Alternative Services debate raging in the Anglican Church 
of Canada have prompted me to dig this up:

When King James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral in London,
he pronounced it "awful, pompous, and artifical'.
 
You may think that he didn't like ti -- but he did.  He meant that
it inspired awe in him, it was stately, and finely worked.
The meanings of all three words have reversed in three centuries.

Why, then trust a three-century old translation into English of
the Word of God?

Personally, I think the Jews have the right of it - rather than
translate the Scripture, teach everyone the to read the original.

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