The Anglican communion marks today as a feast in honor of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes. The English speaking world owes him honor as one of the principals among the forty-seven scholars who proved a committee could in fact produce a literary masterpiece, what we now call the King James Bible.
I have friends who cast about earnestly looking for evidences of God’s hand. Something, I fear, not often in evidence. However, thinking of forty-seven scholars producing something for the ages comes darn close…
As the community from which I came saw it, if the King James Bible was good enough for Jesus, well, it should be good enough for all of us.
And, as someone who likes a well turned sentence, well, it still is pretty darned good…
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