I have an important issue to raise now:
What Bible did John Bunyan use and quote?
Someone showed that his quotes were generally conformed the KJB.
But then a smart alec modernist said, "but which edition of the AV was he using? You see, the AV in 1660 is different to now."
Of course, this is incorrect. Sure, there are differences in editions of the KJB, but the text and translation is not different between 1660 and now, nor between 1660 and 1611. In short, if someone was using the KJB in 1660 or 1960 they are using the same Bible version.
Now it may be that when people quote from memory, or grew up with the Geneva version (as people may have in the early times of the KJB), that their quotations are not always going to match the KJB 100%. But then, even preachers from the early 1900s (when the KJB was pre-eminent) will be found to not always quote 100% exact. (And it gets worse today when modern publishers change the version quotations of traditional preachers... so that their KJB usage is changed to a modern version.)
Today, I believe that we should strive to quote correctly and exactly, and not change so much as a piece of punctuation.
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