I am sorry if this question seems a little rude or pompous, but the other day I was having an Yahoo messenger chat with a person who otherwise seemed intelligent, but who had somehow gotten a belief that the King James Bible was a translation from Latin into English rather than from Hebrew and Greek into English.
Where do people get ideas like that?
It's the Douay-Rheims bible which was a 17th century translation from the Latin.
This guy was also surprised to learn that the Textus Receptus is a Greek text despite having a Latin title.
I don't mean to embarass this one guy, because I have seen a lot of strange things said about the KJV by others. And it isn't that I am one of those KJV-only fundies. But I just wonder where so many people get so many crazy ideas from. In this particular guys case, I assume someone at his Church must have told him the KJV was a translation from Latin.
2006-06-30
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