Love our enemies; George Bernard Shaw on the KJV of the Bible

Proverbs 11: 18, “A talebearer revealeth secrets, But he who is of a faithful spirit concealeth a matter.”  I find a correlative in Mrs. Eddy’s words, “We must love our enemies in all the manifestations wherein and whereby we love our friends; must even try not to expose their faults, but to do them good whenever opportunity occurs.” (Miscellaneous Writings 11:17-21)

I note that the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible was first printed in 1982.  I like what it reports George Bernard Shaw said about the KJV of the Bible.  It says (p. iii), “George Bernard Shaw became a literary legend in our century because of his severe and often humorous criticisms of our most cherished values.  Surprisingly, however, Shaw pays the following tribute to the scholars commissioned by King James: “The translation was extraordinarily well done because to the translators what they were translating was not merely a curious collection of ancient books written by different authors in different stages of culture, but the Word of God divinely revealed through His chosen and expressly inspired scribes.  In this conviction they carried out their work with boundless reverence and care and achieved a beautifully artistic result.” “

Joyce Voysey