Gustavus
Swift Paine
“May your Majesty be pleased,” said Dr. John Rainolds in
his address to the king, “to direct that the Bible be now translated, such
versions as are extant not answering to the original.”
Rainolds was a Puritan, and the Bishop of London felt it
his duty to disagree. “If every man’s humor might be followed,” snorted His
Grace, “there would be no end to translating.”
King James was quick to put both factions down. “I
profess,” he said, “I could never yet see a Bible well translated in English,
but I think that of Geneva is the worst.” The Learned Men, p. 1, 1834.
Forgotten Books.
