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Have you ever noticed the italics
1n
the
King
James
Version of the Bible and wondered what purpose they served?
Why are the words "the son
1
i
italicized in so
many
verses of the genealogy in the
t~rd
chapter of Luke?
Italicized words were first used in
1560
when an
e~tion
of a
Bible~
known as the Geneva
Bible~
appeared. This
Bible had been prepared by the Reformers in Geneva and was
translated
~rectly
from the original Hebrew and Greek.
In
this Bible there were words which had to be added in English to
make the meaning
plain~
although they were not necessary
in
the
original Hebrew and Greek idioms. No language can be translated
word for word. The Reformers distinguished such necessarily
added words by italicizing them. This was the most popular
Bible
obta~able
at that time.
There were three versions of the Bible i.n England
by the beginning of the seventeenth century but these transla–
tions were by no means correct
and~
as time went
on,
the
meaning of some of the English words changed. The need for a
better translation arose and from this need came our most
popular translation of
today~
the
King
James or .Authorized
Version.
~
James I of England gave
t~s
task to a group
of fifty-four translators.
In
this ·group were High Churchmen,
Puritans and the best scholars in the land. They translated
.from the original Hebrew and Greek and they also made use of
italics to distinguish the words they added ·to make peculiar
Hebrew and Greek idioms understandable
1n
English.
In
most
cases italicized words clarify the meaning of certain phrases.
But if you will investigate you will find that the translators
were not men filled with God's Holy Spirit. Such men,
hence~
are apt to make mistakes and they did.
You have probably read
Mr.
Armstrong's article "Is
Jesus God?" which explains that Jesus and not the Father is
the "Lord" so often mentioned in the Old. Testament. The Lord
told Moses at the burning bush that His name was I AM.
This
same Jesus came in the flesh. When the mad mob came to the
Garden of GethBemane for
Him~
He told them, "I
Am
he"; but