The Bible in England

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 10.

The Bible in England.

With the exception of the few Bibles printed by special license, all the Bibles printed in the United Kingdom, the Liverpool Daily Post tells us, are those made by the king's printers and by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Special pains is taken with its printing. “A few years ago the question arose whether the word ‘spirit’ in Matt. 4:1 and Mark 1:12, should have a capital ‘S,’ it having been previously printed with a

small one; and altho the word was obviously wrongly printed, it was not until after the ruling powers at the universities and the king's printers had met in solemn council that leave was given to use the capital letter. Nothing sanctioned by authority in 1611 may be changed without creating something akin to a revolution in the places where Bibles are printed.”