CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
Let the last word go to the translators. Addressing their readers, they declare their “desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar.” Ordinary people were to be given a pathway into the text, which its translators believed to be the doorway to salvation, and the only hope and consolation for the world of their day. Without actually intending to, those translators produced a literary milestone. We can still celebrate both their achievements—the superb translation of the Bible that they intended to create, and the classic work of English literature that was an accidental, yet most welcome, outcome. Our culture has been enriched by both aspects of the King James Bible. Sadly, we shall never see its equal—or even its like—again.