02A.07. Conclusion

VII. Conclusion

It may appear from this paper that I support and uphold the KJV and if "it is charged that a crusade against the new versions is being conducted,...that is exactly so, but it is made necessary by the fight that is being waged against the Bible." (Wallace, p. xxxiv).

George W. DeHoff in the introduction to A Review of the New Versions, says bluntly "Anything which can not be proved by the King James and American Standard Revised Bibles is not the truth." (p. xv).

How does Foy E. Wallace feel about the KJV in his book? He holds forth strongly for it, speaking of it as " ’the grand old version’" (p. xxii). He sums up his fears in the statement "it is my firm conviction that the greatest immediate danger confronting the churches of Christ is the general acceptance of the pseudo-versions of the Bible." (p. xxxv). As to the importance of an accurate translation, Trench reminds us that when correctly translated what we have is "not the translation of an inspired Book, but is itself the inspired Book." (Wallace p. 646). The End

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APPENDIX A THE KING JAMES VERSION A Scholarly Translation

APPENDIX B The Lord’s Prayer in the Historic English Versions (Luke 11:2-4 in the text of the first editions, except as indicated below Windell Gann. The King James Version (6).