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Op-Ed: Forgotten Facts About the 1611 King James Version (KJV) Disproves KJVO Hysterics
This article is a Twitter thread by Josh Barzon, author of The Forgotten Preface, and...
protestia.com
Some of the points in this article: the 1611 KJV translators accepted even imperfect translations such as the Septuagint as the Word of God.
They included variant readings in the margins, and recognized the findings of textual criticism.
They accepted as valid the scholarship of persons who held to theological errors, such as Origen and Jerome. (The article could have mentioned that KJVOs accept the scholarship of Erasmus, a Roman Catholic, and Benjamin Wilkinson, a Seventh Day Adventist, as valid).
They included the Apocrypha in the 1611 edition of the KJV, and cited an apocryphal book in the margin of Hebrews 11:35. (I checked this out in my own copy of the 1611 KJV, and it's true).
