The latter conveys perhaps a starker mood, but at the cost of sending down the expansive rhythm of the former, with all its varied echoes in the labyrinthine memory of the English language. The price these moderns are willing to pay is much too high. Then of course, as predictable as the dawn, Price takes potshots at long-established authority. Partly true perhaps, but the unwary reader is likely to take the wrong idea from that assertion, to conclude that ecclesiastical teachings, promulgated over centuries, can be erased by an amateur with a lexicon. It's not that easy, nor that simple.
Modern translators are irrepressible fidgets.
But once too many threads are teased from this particular tapestry, the whole fabric unravels very fast. Well, close enough. But don't bring it into church. It doesn't scan as well. Please drop us a line.