Footnote: Kinfolk, 2

The preacher shouts:  "Your
"Bible, by God, better be
"the King James Version"---
but its translators would not
be welcomed to that pulpit.

 

Kyakuchuu

 

[jlc]

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The anomaly has always amused me:  they believe themselves more pure, more Biblical, than the Anglican Church; and yet the authority on which they base that opinion of themselves is the "King James Version"---translated by Anglican Bishops and scholars, and named for a man who promised that he would drive all dissenters, including the Baptists, out of England.

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