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Show I TODAY IN HISTORY TUESDAY, JANUARY 25. Toduy In 1CU llrst appcarort the Kins Jumes truncation of tho liiblo. which Is now In common uao by thu ProicHtniu church. At the Hampton Court coiucr-oncc, coiucr-oncc, which was In HCS3lon nt the umo of tho accession to the throne of 'inmos I, the discussion aroso as to tho BlMo tiicii In use, which wna considered un-sullafnctory. un-sullafnctory. Tho word Bible is derived from the Greek Itlblin. "The Boole," nnd was bo-iilowcd bo-iilowcd by Chryaostom In the fourth century. cen-tury. Anions' tho Greek versions tho 'Septuaclnt" Ih regarded as tho most, ancient and valuable translation. There wore early Latin version, the most celebrated cele-brated of which la tho "Vctus Itala. The Bible, during tho early centuries, underwent various revisions up to the time of the Kins Jamos version, wy-cliffe's wy-cliffe's Bible, which appeared In tho latter lat-ter half of the fourteenth century, w:is tho llrst translation of the entire Bible Into English. Ono hundred years later rli. ft nf nrlnflm- wno rllnmvArcri. flllil iho next translation was inndo by William Wil-liam Tyndalc In ln2o. Tho Geneva Blblo appeared during the reign of Queen alary, the New Testament Testa-ment in 1657 nnd the Old Testament In lufii). The Bishops' Bible wna printed by order of Queen Ellznbeth In liitiS. When tho Hampton Court conference suggested suggest-ed a new version. Kins James embraced tho proposal with eagerness, and drew up, with his own pen, the rules for translating. trans-lating. In tho course of tho year 1G04 the King appointed a commission of learned men oelectcd from tho two unl-vcrslllps unl-vcrslllps and from Westminster, consisting consist-ing at first of ilfty-four Individuals, but reduced subsequently to forty-seven. Thoy begun their labors In the spring of H507 and completed them In throe years; nnd then a select committee was appointed, consisting of two from ench university nnd two from Westminster, to correct the work of tho rest. Thus was formed the authorized version ver-sion of the Scriptures, which was published pub-lished in 1C11. und has ever since been the only English translation acknowledged by the Anglican church. Well on to ward the middle of the nineteenth century cen-tury a number of partial revisions were mndc, and In 1870 a committco was appointed ap-pointed in America, both comprising tho brightest scholars in the two countries These committees produced what la known as tho revised version, which camo out In the New Testament In 1SS0 and tho Old Testament in 1SS5. This version Is a very scholarly ono and an Improvement on the old. because a number of manuscripts had been discovered dis-covered after the King Jamos version was written, and besides, scholarship Is better now than In tho time of Jamos. In W01 was produced tho American revised re-vised version, which Is considered to be the most accurate translation of the Bible. With nil those revisions It Is a rcmnrk-a.blo rcmnrk-a.blo fact that very few changes were discovered to bo necessary, and no change In the fundamental teaching of the Bible. Today In 1751) Robert Burns, the Scottish Scot-tish poet, was born In a small cottage by the wayside near tho Brldgu of Doon, two miles from Ayr. It Is also tho birthday of James Hogg (177'J), tho Ettrick poet. |