If you can stomach the one, you can stomach the other. When we expect that it should have come before the World in all the beauty that we now feel in the Authorised Version we are as wide of the mark as the jews were in expecting that the Messiah would come as a great earthly King. The truth is that if we are to have translation at all we must have periodical re-translation. There is no such thing as translating a book into another language once for all, for a language is a changing thing. Beauty exalts, but beauty so lulls.
Early associations endear but they also confuse.
It would have saved me a great deal of labour if this book had come into my hands when I first seriously began to try to discover what Christianity was. I Corinthians iv. 4 Matthew xxvii.