the Oxford KJV "errors"?

KJV-only author D. A. Waite wrote: "I have found at least 3 errors in the Oxford edition of the KJB" (FOES OF THE KJB REFUTED, p. 117).

Waite wrote: "In Jeremiah 34:16 the Oxford University Press King James Version is wrong, false, and in error" (FOES, p. 66). KJV-only author David Daniels wrote that the Oxford printers "mistakenly printed 'whom he' instead of the correct 'whom ye'" (ANSWERS TO YOUR BIBLE VERSION QUESTIONS, p. 127). Concerning this same verse, Thomas Holland claimed that "the error was limited to the editions published by Oxford or those based on the Oxford edition" (CROWNED WITH GLORY, p. 101). He identified it as "a printing error found in some current editions" (p. 100).

Waite maintained that the rendering "sins" at 2 Chronicles 33:19 is "an error in the Oxford editions" (FOES, p. 66). David Daniels also referred to "sins" as "the Oxford error" (ANSWERS, p. 130). Concerning "sins," Daniels claimed: "Cambridge University Press did not make the printing error. And all Cambridge-type texts have the correct readings" (p. 129).

Are these statements by KJV-only authors accurate or true? Was Oxford's press or printer the one responsible for introducing this renderings into the text of the KJV? How do these "errors" affect the view of the KJV-only poster who claimed that the 1769 Oxford KJV is the correct one?

 

Is D. A. Waite (with all his impressive education or credentials) right or wrong in his claims about the "errors" in the Oxford KJV edition?

If it is acceptable for a leading KJV-only author such as D. A. Waite to label a certain rendering in a KJV edition an "error," by what consistent reasoning is it wrong for others to do the same?

 

This may be a surprise for some, but the claims or statements by the KJV-only authors that maintained that the renderings "whom he" (Jer. 34:16) and "sins" (2 Chron. 33:19) were the "Oxford errors" or were the fault of the Oxford printers are not confirmed by the evidence.

While it is true that these renderings are found in some Oxford KJV editions, they were not first introduced into the text of the KJV by the Oxford printers.

In his book AUTHORIZED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE (1611) [that was reprinted at least once by D. A. Waite's Bible for Today], F. H. Scrivener pointed out that the rendering "whom he" was introduced into the text of the KJV in the 1629 and 1638 Cambridge editions (p. 225). Two of the KJV translators were among the editors of one of these Cambridge editions. Whether the editors or the printers introduced this rendering in 1629 may not be known. Did two KJV translators that edited these editions make sure that this rendering in Jeremiah was corrected or did they possibly accept it?

In addition, Scrivener indicated that the rendering "sins" was first introduced into the text of the KJV by the 1762 Cambridge edition (p. 222).

I am not sure if the 1769 Oxford KJV followed the 1762 Cambridge edition and had "sins" at 2 Chronicles 33:19 since the 1804 Oxford KJV edition still has "sin" at this verse.

Thus, these two so-called "Oxford errors" were actually introduced into the text of the KJV by
Cambridge editions [whether by the printers or editors]. Thus, later editors of the Oxford KJV editions were simply keeping the rendering of standard Cambridge editions. The evidence does not suggest that the Oxford printers were the ones who introduced these renderings.

 

Would the "perfect, infallible, pure, and eternal" edition of the KJV have the so-called "Oxford errors?"

 

After being given the proper information about the KJV-only claims concerning the "Oxford errors," do KJV-only advocates accept the actual
evidence and correct their claims?

 

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[ December 31, 2005, 12:40 PM: Message edited by: C4K ]

 

For the benefit of the KJV-only poster who recently claimed that the Cambridge edition of the KJV is more accurate than the Oxford, please check the earlier posts on this thread which shows that the so-called "Oxford errors" were actually first introduced into the text of the KJV by Cambridge standard editions.