BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
“HOW THE
KING JAMES BIBLE BECAME CASTRATED AND IRRADIATED”
aka
“THE WHOPPING
LIE OF FOUR BIBLE REVISIONS”
(Part 2 of
3)
There are
four
categories:
Early
printing
techniques were primitive. The chief printer and his assistants, would
type set
each individual alphabetic letter by hand. Can you imagine that?! Three
million, five hundred and sixty eight thousand, four hundred and eighty
nine
letters to be manually fixed – 3,568,489
letters in the
Bible.
Even by
today’s
perfect printing processes, different editions of books are reprinted
to
correct mis-spelt words, words missing, typo’s, text changes and so on.
There were
the font
changes from the Germanic Gothic Type to Roman Type called Times
New
Roman today - which is
what our modern
newspapers look like.
Put it
this way, if
you opened up a 1611 Bible printed in Gothic Type, you would be hard
pressed to
read it. You maybe could make out a few words but most would be
unrecognizable.
Dear Reader, google up some Gothic Type and see what I mean.
It’s also
called Germanic Type because Germany was where printing was first
invented.
The 1611
printers
chose the Gothic Type as it was considered more beautiful and ornate
than the
Roman Type. Furthermore, this reflected the style of the hand drawn
manuscript
lettering of the Middle Ages, with its elegant and intricate style.
Roman Type
was also available to the 1611 King James Bible Printers but they chose
Gothic.
The following year in 1612, the same printers published the Bible in
Roman
Type.
(i) The
Gothic ‘s’
looks like the Roman ‘s’ when used as a capital letter
or at the
end of a word. If it is used as a lower case ‘s’ at the
beginning
or in the middle of a word, the letter looks like an ‘f’. As
such, ‘also’
becomes ‘alfo’ and ‘set’ becomes ‘fet’.
A little
while back,
I remember a movie on the TV on the life of the Roman Emperor called
CLAUDIUS,
and its title was “I CLAVDIVS” because the ‘U’ had
been
changed into a ‘V’.
By 1611, basic
grammar structure and basic vocabulary had long been
established,
but in the 1600’s there was no such thing as correct spelling.
It was
only in the last half of the 1800’s that spelling took on a stable
form.
Shakespeare,
who died
in 1616, had his name spelt dozens of different ways. He himself signed
his own
name as Shakespeare or Shakespearre with two r’s.
(i) Additional
e’s
were often found at the end of words such as feare, darke
and beare.
Fours
Editions |
Correction |
Edition
1629 Not a
revision but a
corrected edition |
Just a
careful correction of type setting errors. |
Edition
1638 Not a
revision but a
corrected edition |
Just a
careful correction of type setting errors. |
Edition
1762 Not a
revision but a
corrected edition |
Just a
standardization of spelling. |
Edition
1769 Not a
revision but a
corrected edition |
Just a
standardization of spelling. |
Now in
addition, it
was found that 400 textual changes needed attention.
The following table outlines 20 (5%) of the typical corrections from the 1611 King James to the corrected reading and the date that occurred:
# |
1611 reading |
Corrected reading |
Date fixed |
1 |
thy right doeth |
thy right hand doeth Matt 6:3 |
1613 |
2 |
which was of our father’s |
which was our fathers 2Chron 29:6 |
1616 |
3 |
seek good The humble shall see this,
and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek good. Ps 69:32 |
seek God The humble shall see this,
and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. Ps 69:32 |
1617 Corrected only 6 years
after 1611! |
For number 3 above, it was
obviously a type-setting error for the following two
reasons (1) The words ‘good’ and ‘God’ are so similar in spelling, that
a tired typesetter could have misread the word ‘God’ for ‘good’ (2) It was so noticeable,
it was picked up after only six years after the original
printing in 1611. In a list of 400
corrections, of which we have 20 shown here, Number 3 is the only
one that has a hint of being doctrinal. |
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4 |
requite good |
requite me good 2Sam 16:12 |
1629 |
5 |
this book of the Covenant |
the book of this covenant 2Kings 23:21 |
1629 |
6 |
chief rulers |
chief ruler 1Chron 5:2 |
1629 |
7 |
For the king had appointed |
for so the king had
appointed Est 1:8 |
1629 |
8 |
The cormorant |
But the cormorant Is 34:11 |
1629 |
9 |
The crowned |
Thy crowned Nah 3:17 |
1629 |
10 |
which was a Jew |
which was a Jewess Acts 24:24 |
1629 |
11 |
the city |
the city of Damascenes 2Cor 11:32 |
1629 |
12 |
a fiery furnace |
a burning fiery furnace Dan 3:15 |
1638 |
13 |
this thing |
this thing also Gen 19:21 |
1638 |
14 |
And Parbar |
At Parbar 1 Chron 26:18 |
1638 |
15 |
For this cause |
And for this cause John 18:37 |
1638 |
16 |
now and ever |
both now and ever Jude 1:25 |
1638 |
17 |
the ways side |
the way side Matt 13:4 |
1743 |
18 |
shalt have remained |
ye shall have remained Deut 4:25 |
1762 |
19 |
Achzib, nor Helbath, nor
Aphik |
of Achzib, nor of Helbath,
nor of Aphik (Judges 1:31) |
1762 |
20 |
returned |
turned Gen 19:3 |
1769 |
As stated, there were approximately 400
textual variations detected between the 1611 edition the modern King James
Bible. Of that 400, there were 100 variations between the first two Oxford
editions which were both printed in 1611. That left 300 variations after that.
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