The KJV’s respect for God’s Words

[Rippon]

Have you ever known of any reader of the KJV aloud to alert the listening audience that a particular word just spoken was italicized?

Only occasionally.

 

[Rippon]

But I am a little prejudice[sic], since it was the orthodox crowd, that turned my Lord over to be crucified.

I guess stilllearning is in favor of the heterodox crowd.

 

[Jerome]

More than the average Englishman could afford, but not the wealthy, and not the churches themselves. The very fact that the Crown put its own tax on it would have been enough for me to never pick it up had I lived at the time.

Re: Price of Bibles circa 1600: [KJB1611 (large pulpit edition) reportedly cost 12s.]

these were mainly the Bishops' and Geneva versions and valued at 8s., 10s., and 12s., with one quarto at 5s. in the early seventeenth century.

The vicar of Berwick-on-Tweed whose will was proved in 1607 had possessed a Geneva Bible worth 10s., and a petty canon of Durham who died in 1603 had "an English Bible" also worth 10s., a price suggesting that the copies were cheap folios or bound quartos.

p. 84, "English Bibles and their Owners," Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England by Ian Green


We're still waiting for any substantiation of this "Crown tax" business.

 

[franklinmonroe]

... But personally, I have never heard a speaker of the Bible (KJV or other versions) while publically reading a lengthy passage disrupt the flow of that text with statements such as "Oh, that last word was italicized" or "Please note, this next word is italicized". It would be inconvenient, destroy the rhythm of the language, add to the length of time, and potentially cause the storyline or main idea to become obscured. That is what I meant. Now, is that really the practice you are familiar with? ...

Roger, I am still curious. Thanks