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The Word of God was in many forms of the Scriptures before 1611, whether its letters, words and/or sounds match the English of the King James Bible or not. The fact is that many times Hebrew and Greek do not look nor sound like English, yet we know that the Scripture must have been true when it was first written. And the Gospel went forth to many nations. Therefore, the truth of the meaning of words is what counts. As much as copies of Scriptures were sufficiently accurate people were able to believe and be saved.

Because of variations in Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and editions, the translators of 1604-1611 judged what words did or did not belong to the Scripture. They also consulted other versions and translations to help. And besides this, they decided upon what was the best English word to use, and how the English rendering might best present the actual and intended meaning of the original. Given that they were revising six other English Bibles which had done the same thing, and with the process of checking and rechecking involved, it is not hard to see that these learned men got it right.

The Word of God was scattered in many places from the Early Church, and the Bible was not presented perfectly in one volume before 1611. But it was there, present in Earth, and sufficiently well presented in many copies. Correct readings, and particularly with the Protestant English translations, many correct givings of the sense. But no single Bible was fully right.

It would be wrong to count the purification of the English Bible as somehow descending from the Gothic Bible.
1. The Gothic language is not an ancestor to English. (Both have a common Germanic language ancestor.)
2. The Gothic version does not have any direct or particular baring on the Protestant English Bibles. (The Gothic Bible is a small and acceptable branch in the Bible version tree.)
The KJB will be slightly similar to the Gothic because both are of the German language group, and both Bibles come from Byzantine sources. But that is it.

The English people were specially chosen of God to bring His Word to the world. It is evident that the Gothic people have an entirely separate history, in Sweden, Spain and Austria, etc. (= Visigoths and Ostrogoths).

The seven purifications spoken of in Psalm 12 have been easily applied to seven English Bibles, which has nothing to do with the Gothic Version.

At best, to make strong links to the Gothic is wishful thinking (which is unscientific and not fitting Scripture), and at worst is because of an entirely wrong view of God’s use of the British people, for though the greatest people of God are found of us, we are not biologically descended from Abraham, but from Ashkenaz.

Our English Bible has come to us from the highest pedigree, the Eastern Greek Church and the Jewish Masoretic scholars. However, neither Jewish nor Orthodox error mars our Bible, because that the furnace of Earth, as spoken of in Psalm 12, has completed its work, so that we have a seven-time purified English Bible. First was Tyndale, whose work was incomplete, and the last was the Authorized Version, which was the complete and perfect text and translation of the Scripture, not only for Christians in England, but set forth for the whole world.

The highest form of Christianity is not hidden somewhere in the times of the Goths. It came out from the Reformation in England. It has shone like a city on a hill in the USA. And it is in the ends of the earth in Australia. "This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes." (Ps. 118:23). Our heritage is to hold the end of this scarlet thread of God's chain of providence.