THE FOLLOWING QUOTES ARE FROM THE BOOK "OUR GOD-BREATHED BOOK-THE BIBLE" BY JOHN R. RICE, PUBLISHED 1969.

 

 

 

From chapter xix

 

GOD PRESERVES HIS ETERNAL WORD

 

 

 

"Well, there are many, many translations.  The differences in the translations are so minor, so insignificant, that we can be sure not a single command or exhortation, has been missed in our translations.  And where the Word of God is not perfectly translated in one instance, it is corrected in another translation. And if the Word of God is not perfectly portrayed in one translation, it is portrayed, surely, in the winnowed sum of them all.  And besides, one can go back to the origional Greek and Hebrew texts to check for himself the translations."  page 354

 

From chapter xx

 

BIBLE TRANSLATIONS, PRINCIPLES AND COMMENTS

 

 

 

"The Scripture "cannot be broken" (John 10:35), and every one of God's righteous judegments "endureth for ever" (Ps.119:160).  They are "incorruptible" according to 1 Peter 1:23.  Therefore the various translations contain, together, the eternal, unchangeable Word of God.  But there are virtues and faults in each particular translation which we should note."  page 376

 

 

 

"When  we speak of a flaw in this translation or that, we should remember that the flaws are so few in any criticied translation as to be a minor and almost insignificant part of the whole.  Suppose there are one hundred places in the Revised Standard Version which I think are bad translations-and there probably are.  That would be one verse, perhaps, in each thirteen pages of the approximate 1300 pages in the edition!  If liberals, biased against the deity of Christ, change "virgin" in Isiah 7:14 to "young woman" as I think is wrong or leave out "begotten" in John 3:16, which seems to be weak scholarship and take indefensible liberty, yet all the great truths of God are taught in this version, all confort, all the commands."  pages 376-377

 

"Whatever their faults, all translations have the very Word of God." page 377

 

"The translators of the American Standard Version had the advantage of having  access to the three oldest manuscripts with which we are familiar-the Vatican, the Alexandrian, and the sinaitic manuscripts.  It corrects some mistakes in the King James Version." page 382