Everyday language can be full of trendy vocabulary understood only by the initiated, full of confusing jargon and incomprehensible idioms. There is the specialist language belonging to a particular trade, profe-ssion, or area of knowledge. One should not assume that, because the language is modern, it is necessarily easier to understand. Anyone in the least acquainted with modern literature will know that much of it is notoriously difficult to read and the language is often anything but beautiful. It is also strangely paradoxical that the more a language is simplified, the less clear it can become.
Clarity gives place to ambiguity and imprecision.
Part of the wonder of the Authorised Version is its simplicity, precision, and clarity. It is more than a touch arrogant, and not supported by experience, to suppose that 17th century English, or that of the AV, is beyond the linguistic ability of the young or even foreign readers of English.