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G2Rad
5th January 2011, 11:42 AM
In Jer 36:21 the ORIGINAL roll by Jeremiah is brought before King Jehoiakim and read by his servant Jehudi.

verse 23, Jehudi read three or four leaves and King Jehoiakim cut it up with a penknife and cast it into the fire on the hearth until it was destroyed.

Thus ends ORIGINAL #1 !

Then the Lord moved Jeremiah to rewrite the roll adding some words to it. (Jer 36:32)

Thus the ORIGINAL #2 is born.

We are shown the text of this second original in Jeremiah 45-51 where it is reproduced for our benefit.

Jeremiah told Seraiah to read this roll when he came into Babylon. (Jeremiah 51:59-61) Then Jeremiah instructed Seraiah, after he finished reading the roll, to bind a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates river (Jeremiah 51:63)!

Thus ends ORIGINAL #2!

But wait! We have a copy of the text of the roll in chapters 45-51. Where did it come from? It came from a copy of original #2 which we can only call "ORIGINAL" #3

G2Rad
5th January 2011, 11:59 AM
There were two original printings of the Authorized Version. Both were printed in the same year: 1611.
Both editions were printed in Oxford. The same printers did both jobs.
Most likely, both editions were printed on the same printing press.
Yet, in a strict comparison of the two editions, approximately 100 textual differences (printing errors) can be found.

All type was set by hand, one piece at a time (that's one piece at a time through the whole Bible). Errors were an expected part of any completed book at those times.

There are about 400 alleged textual alterations in the King James Version after 375 years of printing and four so-called "revisions".

The first two so-called major "revisions" of the King James Bible occurred within 27 years of the original printing.
The 1629 edition of the Bible printed in Cambridge is said to have been the first "revision". A revision it was not, but simply a careful correction of earlier printing errors.
Not only was this edition completed just eighteen years after the translation, but two of the men who participated in this printing, Dr. Samuel Ward and John Bois, had worked on the original translation of the King James Version. Who better to correct early errors than two who had worked on the original translation.
Nine years later (in Cambridge again), another edition came out which is supposed to have been the second major revision. Both Ward and Bois were still alive, but it is not known if they participated at this time. But even Scrivener, who as you remember worked on the English Revised Version of 1881, admitted that the Cambridge printers had simply reinstated words and clauses overlooked by the 1611 printers and amended manifest errors. 72% of the approximately 400 textual corrections in the KJV were completed by the time of the 1638 Cambridge edition, only 27 years after the original printing.

the first two so-called revisions were actually two stages of one process: the purification of early printing errors, so the last two so-called revisions were two stages in another process: the standardization of the spelling, These two editions were only seven years apart (1762 and 1769). the the second one completing what the first had started


the tale of four major revisions is truly a fraud and a myth

G2Rad
5th January 2011, 12:30 PM
KJV 1611

out of 400 variations, there is only one significant correction made in 375 years. The correction was made six years after the first edition in the year of 1617: "seek good" (1611 text) was changed to "seek God." (modern text) (Psalm 69:32)

Compare that to approx. 60,000 deliberate changes made by authors of New King James Version