"In 1629, a revision was produced by [C]ambridge University. Dr. Samuel Ward and Dean John Bois, from the original 1611 translating committee, were involved in this revision. It is the 1629 revision that dropped the Apocrypha from its position between the testaments of Scripture." Stringer, Dr. Phil. The Unbroken Bible. The Bible Nation Society, 2018. p. 287.
Phil Stringer provided no sound proof for his claim that the 1629 revision dropped the Apocrypha. Phil Stringer is somewhat uninformed and misinformed concerning KJV editions. You have been misinformed by Phil Stringer.
D. A. Waite assumed and claimed: “The Cambridge University Press, for instance, has not altered the Authorized King James Bible and has kept it intact. It is a fixed phenomenon” (
Central Seminary Refuted, p. 141). Others may have accepted Waite’s unproven claim about his edition of the KJV in his
Defined KJB being the 1769 Cambridge. For example, Phil Stringer wrote: “I identify completely with the statement by Pastor Robert Barnett (Dean Burgon Society meeting, July, 2010).” Phil Stringer quoted Barnett’s comment about “God’s truth in our 1769 Cambridge edition of the King James Bible” (
Messianic Claims of Gail Riplinger, p. 97).
Waite's Defined KJB and other post-1900 KJV editions are not the 1769 Cambridge edition unaltered. Actual verifiable evidence would show that the KJV edition in Waite’s
Defined KJB would be actually based more on the 1769 Oxford than on a 1769 Cambridge since the 1769 Cambridge did not have all the changes introduced in the 1769 Oxford that are followed or found in Waite’s edition. The actual text of a KJV edition printed at Cambridge in 1769 still has the three errors (2 Chron. 33:19, Jer. 34:16, Nahum 3:16) that Waite and others incorrectly blamed on Oxford University Press.
A 1769 Cambridge still had some of the typical characteristic renderings found in the 1743 and 1762 standard Cambridge editions, and those are not found in typical post-1900 Cambridge editions. A few example characteristic renderings in the 1743, 1762, and 1769 Cambridge editions could include “all lost things” (Deut. 22:3), “in the judgement” (Matt. 12:41), “afterwards” (Luke 4:2), “and he cried out” (Luke 4:33), “lifted” (Luke 16:23), “number of the names” (Acts 1:15), “killedst” (Acts 7:28), “from
things strangled” (Acts 21:25), “and have gained” (Acts 27:21), “
in utterance” (2 Cor. 8:7), “
in knowledge” (2 Cor. 8:7), “those who” (Gal. 2:6), “and I beseech” (Phil. 4:2), and “be ye warmed and be ye filled” (James 2:18). A distinctive rendering of the 1762 and 1769 Cambridge is “sent messengers” at Genesis 50:16 although that rendering is from the 1638 Cambridge.
The 1769 Cambridge edition also had a few different or distinctive renderings whether intentional editing corrections or unintentional printing errors [see Gen. 2:14, Gen. 31:38, Gen. 44:10, Exod. 12:30, Deut. 2:22, Judges 8:27, 1 Sam. 7:10, 2 Sam. 19:18, 2 Sam. 23:3, 2 Kings 9:16, Job 9:30, Matt. 28:12, Acts 27:40, Rom. 10:7]. The 1769 Cambridge would apparently have an intentional editing change at Genesis 31:38 [“These twenty years”] since “these” is a demonstrative used as an adjective that grammatically would be used with a noun plural in number while “this” would be used as an adjective with a noun singular in number. This alteration or grammatical correction in the 1769 at Genesis 31:38 would be in agreement with “these forty years” (Deut. 2:7, 8:2, 8:4), “these two times” (Gen. 27:36), and “these many years” (Luke 15:29, Rom. 15:23). This alteration is not unique to the 1769 Cambridge since it was also in several earlier Oxford editions (1709, 1713, 1722, 1737, 1743, 1749, 1753, 1756, 1760, 1762) and is found in over thirty KJV editions. Another deliberate alteration at Matthew 28:12 [“large sums of money” for “large money”] could be regarded as a distinctive mark of the 1769 Cambridge.
KJV-only advocates seem to be uninformed concerning which renderings could be regarded to characterize the text of the 1769 Cambridge. I have a 1769 Cambridge KJV edition that was printed at Cambridge in 1769 and have compared it firsthand to present post-1900 KJV editions. I found over 1000 alterations or differences between an actual 1769 Cambridge KJV edition and the Cambridge edition in Waite's Defined KJB, which are listed in the book TODAY'S KJV AND 1769 COMPARED.
