From MA.
When someone asks me, “What is the Episcopal Church?” I am tempted to respond, “We are the people who gave you the King James Bible.”
That translation, published 400 years ago in 1611, was brought to America by Anglican colonists, members of the Church of England, which became the Episcopal Church after the American Revolution. Over the years, it became so accepted and loved that those opposed to new versions of the Bible often speak as though the King James version was the one originally dictated by God.
The original languages of Scripture were, of course, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Christians, however, do not regard the original text as a revelation that cannot be translated in the way that Muslims view the Quran, whose English renderings are considered merely paraphrases. In the late 4th century, a Latin translation of both the Old and New Testaments was made, mostly by St. Jerome. Known as the Vulgate, it became the standard Bible version in the Western Church.
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