Today, I preached on Isaiah 28:16: “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.” The Scriptures make it very clear, in multiple passages, that this is a reference to our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
This year’s Moderator of the Church of Scotland wrote an article worthy of his Kirk titled, “Doctrine Getting in the Way of Faith.”
According to multiple sources, this hymn is based on The Yigdal of Daniel ben Judah, a Jewish judge in Rome around the year 1400. It was paraphrased by Thomas Olivers in the eighteenth century.
Alastair Roberts and I have some interesting points of contact. He lives in Durham, likes English cricket and cathedral cities, and enjoys word games. Yesterday, I listened to Test Match Special while driving through Durham. In the last two days I also hit cathedral cities in Lancaster and Oxford, and Sunday passed Westminster Cathedral and Abbey, and walked around St. Paul’s. My feet hurt, but my cathedral city bona fides are impeccable! Not only that, I play a mean game of Boggle! 🙂
(This post had its origins in a question on a previous post. I thought it was worth making into a front page article.)
We use the Authorised (King James) Version for our Bible translation in our church. There are many factors in choosing a Bible translation. I’m not going to speak to them all in this post! But I would like to address one thing that many people cite as a reason to use a more modern translation — the use of antiquated words such as “Thou,” “Thee,” and “Thy.”
Certainly, these words sound strange to the modern ear. We don’t go around using them in daily conversation. Wouldn’t it be better if we just went to using “you”? Well, there would be something to be gained in that. If we want modern readers to understand the Bible, it would help to use words that modern readers know, wouldn’t it? But something would be lost, too. So I’d like to take a post to briefly show the value of these old words, and why I’m persuaded their presence in the Authorised Version is a plus rather than a minus.
Mind Renewers 