George Bernard Shaw on King James Bible...

[ Like Paddington the Little Bear, this post, too, ambles on! :) ]

"George Bernard Shaw became a literary legend in our century because of his severe and often humerous criticisms of our most cherished values.

"Surprisingly, however, Shaw pays the following tribute to the scholars commissioned by King James.."

And now, in Shaw's own words:

"The translation was extraordinarily well done because to the translators what they were translating was not merely a curious collection of ancient books written by different authors in different stages of culture, but the Word of God divinely revealed thorugh His chosen and expressly inspired scribes.

"In this conviction they carried out their work with boundless reverence and care and achieved a beautifully artistic result."

This is taken -- and high lighted -- from the Preface to the Thomas Nelson, Inc. edition, copyright 1983.