[Magdalen] A small, complete, Bible.
Jay Weigel
jay.weigel at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 19:32:07 UTC 2016
For my money, you can't beat the Psalms in the KJV language. They are,
after all, poetry.
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I love my KJV with Apocrypha. As I read the first lesson for this past
> Sunday (to myself, at home), I burst into tears when Elijah presented
> the revived son to his mother with the words, "See, thy son liveth."
> Somehow that phrasing moved me more than any other.
>
> Perhaps it's because the KJV seems beautifully florid and wordy but
> catches us up with a direct phrase in good short Anglo-Saxon-derived
> words.
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:16 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I never looked, but I would imagine it does not
> > have the apocrypha, although since the full KJV has the apocrypha, I
> expect
> > there are versions around. Mom's Bible was a KJV with the apocrypha in
> it.
>
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>
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