. . . the reader will perhaps be surprised that whenever possible we use the today-unfashionable Authorized [“King James”] Version of the Bible. This is because it is still the best English-language version. Not the most accurate: the best — and we have William Tyndale, its unacknowledged ghost-writer, to thank for that. On points of detail it must be checked against more modern translations, ones whose erudition and finite accuracy surpass it. Those little matters are important, for God is in the details. But God is also in the music. All of the modern English language translations of the New Testament that I have encountered are either written for the tone deaf or, with false-vividness, for the philistine. The Almighty has enough trouble with a world where even the music of the ionosphere is being distorted by human technodreck: at least let his Word sing.