Who said that?

[WesleyF]

“If the King James Bible was good enough for St. Paul, it is good enough for me!”

Who said it? I’ve heard it before! Lol!

 

[JPUSC]

Before I talk about promoting peace, I will tell a story that illustrates a basic cause of conflict. There was a hot argument in Texas in the 1920s—one that is still going on in several states, particularly in California—about whether Spanish should be used in the classroom to teach kids who came from Mexico, or whether only English should be permitted. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson had become the state’s first woman governor, after her husband, Governor “Pa” Ferguson was impeached. She ended the debate quite quickly when she held up a Bible and proclaimed, **“If the King’s English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for the children of Texas!” **

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If these were the people who held power over our education system, no wonder current-day students receive such a poor education.

23 May 1881, New York Times, “Preaching on the Bible; Pulpit Opinions of the New Version,” pg. 8:
The Rev. Dr. Pentecost … illustrated the tenacity with which people cling to the old Bible by telling a story about an agent of a Bible society who was trying to collect money in a country church for a new translation of the Bible. The agent asked an old farmer in the congregation to contribute. “What’s the matter with the good old King James version?” the farmer replied. “That was good enough for St. Paul, and it’s good enough for me.”

October 1884, Universalist Quarterly and General Review, “‘The New Covenant’ and its Critics,” pg. 465:
Prof. Schaff pertinently observes: There are many lineal descendants of those priests, who, in the reign of Henry VIII, preferred their old-fashioned Mumpsimus Domine to the new-fangled Sumpsimus; even in the enlightened State of Massachusetts, a pious deacon is reported to have opposed the Revision of 1881 with the conclusive argument, “If St. James’s Version was good enough for St. Paul, it is good enough for me!” [Apparently quoting Philip Schaff’s Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version (1883).]

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