Review: language surprise
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
I thought that becasue the original Geneva was about 50 years older than the King James that the language would be more antique.  In fact, the  English was simpler to a modern reader.  The King James  reverted to older English syntax, for example "Thou lovest" instead of "you love."  That made the King James more lofty and sublime to the failtful.  The Geneva was not "authorized" by the powers in England at the time, so that made it more "heretical".  "Those pesky Calvinits amyway.." There is a media campaign on TV to promote copies of the Geneva to Christians.  The campaign empahsized the underground history of the translation,  That is what made me curious.Another astonishing thing is ther spelling of prioper names is different from what one is used to.  Also the letter "V" replaced the letter "U" and "Uisa Ursa" as on a corner stone.on a bank building or a headstone.  It is refreshinginly different but not al; that dirrerent.  Sometimes the fashionable efforts to retranslate the scriptures and be politically correct can be carried too far.Someday the 23rd Psalm may tun out some like "It prods me into verdant goat pitches."