{"id":13903,"date":"2011-11-16T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/11\/16\/13903.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:03:39","slug":"four-hundred-years-and-the-wor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2011\/11\/16\/four-hundred-years-and-the-wor\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Hundred Years, and the work is still beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I criticize the Anglican Primate pretty often and in pretty harsh terms (particularly considering I’m not a Christian), but I actually like the old man, when it comes down to it. Likely it’s the Peter Principle in action: he isn’t terribly competent at being the head of the Anglican Communion, but he’s a marvelous preacher, writer and thinker. I was very impressed by his Sermon at the Thanksgiving Service to mark the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the 1611 Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible<\/a>.\n

Gentle Readers are aware by now that Your Humble Blogger likes him some KJV. I am always a little self-conscious about my fondness for the KJV, because it is not a terribly accurate<\/i> translation. It’s lovely and magnificent, but find myself frequently comparing different translations and picking at what Hebrew I understand and to grope beyond it. Crazy Archbishop Rowan, bless the man, picks that up as a strength:\n

What is a good translation? Not one that just allows me to say, when I pick it up, ‘Now I understand’. Of course, if I’m faced with a text in a strange language, I need to be able simply to read it; but a good translation will be an invitation to read again, and to probe, and reflect, and imagine with the text. Rather than letting me say, ‘Now I understand’, it prompts the response, ‘Now the work begins.’<\/blockquote>\n

…I was going to make that the beginning of this note, but I don’t think I actually have anything to add to it.\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn’t really know if today is the actual anniversary of the Presentation to King James, but what the heck anyway, you know? They picked a day, and it’s a good opportunity for observance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19456,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions\/19456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}