RE: [Worship] A CCLI Question

["Crume, Alan" <a.crume@tcu.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Cobb [mailto:steve@worshipfulheart.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 12:29 PM
> To: Butler, Steve; worship@praise.net
> Subject: RE: [Worship] A CCLI Question
>[snipped]
> The 1611 KJV seems to have survived over the years without a copyright. (I am not 
> a KJV only believer) God has been able to protect what has been His 
> for a very long time....without our copyrights. 
> [snipped]

Actually, there is a whole branch of study concerning the various changes and abuses made of the KJV. If you compare the 1611 version with the 1759? (think that's the date) or the current version there are changes beyond the modernization of spelling and grammar. And we're not even talking about all the cult versions that have used the KJV (Shakers to Mormon to Xian science to JW) as their base (sometimes even claiming that they were merely "correcting" errors that had crept in).

Another historical note -- the English Revised Version (1889?) was the last major version not to be copyrighted. When the American Standard Version (1901) was put out they explained in the preface that the reason they copyrighted the ASV was the extreme number of corrupted "version" of the ERV that had sprung up.

Anyway......

Yours in Him,
Alan Crume
mailto:a.crume@tcu.edu

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