I question when someone authorizes a version as being inspired too, and then feels the need to plug his own name in a few times even though its a blatant mistranslation of the name.
He was born a king. That is ultimately nothing, as even the Emperor of Babylon found out.
Its what you do with what God gives you that matters.
King James stepped up and permitted, authorized, and paid for a new, clear and noble translation for the English speaking peoples of his nation.
One needs to remember the context, in which the Medieval church had persecuted people for 300 years and had burned people alive for daring to translate the New Testament into a readable and understandable language, because they did not want ordinary people to find out what was in the Bible texts.
Against this background, when even those in authority in his own English church were not necessarily happy with giving people the power to read and interpret for themselves the Bible, that
James did the right thing when it counted, and allowed a sensible, skilled and reverent translation to be made.
The task was ultimately done so well, that no other English translation has been able to supplant the KJV for nearly 400 years.
The fact that after all this time the language needs updating is no shame upon the Godly men who made the translation in 1611, and those who cared and protected that work by periodically updating the language, so that it would remain the centerpiece of British culture and literacy that it obviously is.
It was called the
Authorized Version in James' lifetime, not "the King James version", which is a more modern name.
James the name is just an Anglicized version of "Jacob", but perhaps it should have been left "Jacob" in various places in the text. However, historically, almost all the names in the Bible have been 'translated' in an Anglicized fashion to help English readers become familiar with the text without being distracted by strange and foreign-sounding names.
Almost
all other English translations adopt the same Anglicized names, so this is hardly a fault of the KJV, as though this translation was doing something different than everyone else.
peace
Nazaroo
