BIBLE TERCENTENARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 5

BIBLE TERCENTENARY.

dajte of celebrations. tty Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rcc. December 29, 9.20 p.m.) London, December 29. The commemoration of the tercentenary of the Authorised Version the Bible is to commence in Britain on March 26. As the actual date of publication has not been discovered, a date has been chosen so as not to interfere with the Coronation festivities. The Canadian celebrations will be held in February, and in the United States in April. [In 1604, James I called for an. entirely new translation 'of the Bible, for which all the previous ones were to be utilised, that ono being followed in every case which came nearest to the meaning of the original text. The work was entrusted to tho most talented and learned men iii the kingdom, to the number of- forty-seven, who were dividej into companies, with a portion of the Bible to each comuany; and was completed by the end of 1607. But with the time occupied in its revisai, printing, etc., it was net issued till 1011. It is the version still in use. A company of translators met in London (Slay 25, 1870), and commenced a revised translation. The new revised translation of tho New Testament was published in 1881, and that of the Old Testament in 1385.]