Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Bible as English Literature
This same essential unity of quality is even more palpable In the style, which in its directness and its simple nobility is the one standard which we have in English to control the development Of our lan guage. The phrases from the Bible which have grown into our everyday speech spring impartially from the Old and New Testaments: we use the son Of his old age, or the valley of the shadow Of death, or the pure in spirit, or lilies of the field, without thinking whether they come from one part of the book or the other. This unity Of style is, as we shall see, largely due to the fact that the whole book was translated at the same period into a language Of unsurpassed and unfaded vigor, which now has enough tinge Of the archaic to give it a color Of its own. It was Tindale's great achieve ment that once for all be fixed the language Of the whole Bible: and under the anxious and inspired care of the revisers who followed in his steps the style has been brought to a point of simplicity and dignity, of strong feeling expressed by the rich music Of the prose, of stateliness and directness, which sets it apart from the style Of any other book in the language.
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