john calvin introduced the authorised version of the bible.
who introduced the authorised version of the bible?
john calvin
john hall (ca. 1559 – august 1627) was the moderator of the general assembly of the church of scotland, meeting in burntisland in 1601. the assembly asked king james the vi of scotland to order a revised translation of the holy scriptures (the "bible"). it seems that this was the king’s own suggestion, but, despite expressing admiration for the king’s considerable linguistic and theological abilities, the assembly declined to invite him onto the committee it set up to carry out this task. the main task was to revise an already existing english (that is to say, not scots) translation - the so-called geneva bible which contained extensive footnotes and explanations, many of them not acceptable to the king. it was not until he became king james i of england that he commissioned a group of english clergy and scholars to complete this task. the result was the famous authorised version of the scriptures, a book that has had enormous effects on the english language as well as on the civil and religious history of the english speaking peoples.
john hall (minister)
sin was apparently economical with facts in stating (with emphasis), on page 2 of his article regarding scrivener's tr, "in some places the authorised version corresponds but loosely with any form of the greek original, while it follows exactly the latin vulgate," but omitting scrivener on page 656 of "the new testament in greek according to the text followed in the authorised version" (cited in his footnote) saying, "the text of beza 1598 has been left unchanged when the variation from it made in the authorised version is not countenanced by any earlier edition of the greek." in not back-translating to greek from the latin vulgate in the few places where the kjv seems to follow closely the vulgate, scrivener preserved the integrity of the new testament in the original greek according to the text followed in the authorised version greek text underlying the 1611 authorized version.
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