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Excerpt from The New Testament: The Authorized Version, Corrected
In dealing with the more difficult words of this class, the Translators appear to have paid much regard to traditional interpretations, and especially to the authority of the Vulgate; but, as to the large residue of words which might properly fall under the rule, they used considerable freedom. Moreover they profess in their Preface to have studi ously adopted a variety of expression which would now be deemed hardly con sistent with the requirements of faithful translation. They seem to have been guided by the feeling that their Version would secure for the words they used a lasting place in the language and they express a fear lest they should 'be charged: (by scoffers) with some un equal dealing towards a great number of good English words, ' which, without this liberty on their part, would not have a place in the pages of the English Bi ble. Still it cannot be doubted that they carried this liberty too far, and that the studied avoidance of uniformity in the rendering of the same words, even when occurring in the same context, is one of the blemishes in their work.
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