Acts 24:24 in 1611 referred to Drusilla, the wife of the Roman governor Felix, as a Jew; in 1629, this was altered to Jewess. The original translation of Mark 10:18 read thus: there is no man good, bu...
Changes—the use of ye, thou, and so forth remains unchanged. The King James translators simply did not believe that they had the authority to make changes reflecting developments in the English langua...
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:41). Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but...
How does humanity find God and enter into a relationship with him—a relationship that delivers humanity once and for all from fear of death, hell, or damnation? Luther is adamant: this relationship is...
As Lewis later put it, All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Aquinas argues that everything that moves is moved by something else. For every motion, there is a cause. Things do not just move – they are moved by something else. Now each cause of motion must itse...
Literature—above all, poetry—was Lewis’s firewall, keeping the chaotic and meaningless external world at a safe distance, and shielding him from the existential devastation it wreaked on others.
The first printing of the King James Bible in 1611 included a number of printing errors. For example, a small slip in the typesetting of the description of the interior of the tabernacle led to the fo...