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Originally Posted by Elli
The KJV was also written to be very poetic. It wasn't meant to sound like commonly spoken language.
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Yes and no... agree that it is poetic but it was also meant to be simple and straightforward and easily understood so the language was "common" in the sense of not being elevated above the commoners level of education or knowledge.
(That's what you get when you have lit majors that chose the path of porn over the seminary on gfy...
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