Printing Changes
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The changes that one sees in the KJV 1611 are of three kinds: printing changes, spelling changes, and textual changes. This page will only deal with the printing changes. Referenced: The Answer Book: A Helpbook for Christians. Dr. Samuel C. Gipp, ThD. Ohio: Daystar Publishing, 1989.
PRINTING CHANGES:
Printing changes are due to the font style they used at 1611. “The type style used in 1611 by the KJV translators was the Gothic Type Style.” (19) This Gothic Type Style is thought to have come from Germany, so it is also called Germanic. In 1612, the first Roman Type King James Bible was printed. Within a few years, they switched it from the Gothic to the Roman font style. Gothic font-> Roman font. This is one of the reasons for the changes from the KJV 1611 to the KJV that we see today.
“The modern reader who has not become familiar with Gothic can find it very difficult to understand. Besides some general change in form, several specific letter changes need to be observed. For instance, the Gothic s looks like the Roman s when used as a capital letter or at the end of a word. But when it is used as lower case s at the beginning or in the middle of a word, the letter looks like our f.” (20)
“Another variation is found in the German v and u. The Gothic v looks like a Roman u while the German u looks like the Roman v. This explains why our w is called a double-u and not a double-v. Sound confusing? …In the 1611 edition, love is loue, us is vs, and ever is euer. But remember, these are not even spelling changes. They are simply type style changes.” (20)
“In another instance, the Gothic j looks like our i. So Jesus becomes Iefus (notice the middle s changed to f) and joy becomes ioy.”(20)
“Even the Gothic d with the stem leaning back over the circle in a shape resembling that of the Greek Delta. These changes account for a large percentage of the “thousands” of changes in the KJV, yet they do no harm whatsoever to the text.” (20)
Moreover, F.H.A Scrivener who wrote the Authorized Edition of the English Bible 1611, Its Subsequent Reprints and Modern Representatives, was on the Revision Committee of 1881, so he is not a KJV only proponent. Yet he even “admitted that the Cambridge printers had simply reinstated words and clauses overlooked by the 1611 printers and amended manifest errors.” (18)
About the Author
Gipp, Samuel C. Th.D. The Answer Book: A Helpbook for Christians. Tennesee: Bible and Literature Missionary Foundation. 1989. Ohio: DayStar Publishing. P.O. Box 464 Miamitown, Ohio 45041 originally quoted from David F. Reagan, ThD. The Myth of Early Revisions: the facts behind the King James Version of 1611, 1986, 9-11.
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