Why doesn PocketBible (or MyBible) use the “Authorized” King James Version?
From time to time someone will send me an email asking why the spellings in our edition of the King James Version differ from their KJV. They usually cite the word “thoroughly” in our version of 2 Timothy 3:17 which is spelled “throughly” in other editions. The truth of the matter is that there have been literally hundreds of editions of the KJV Bible in the 388 years since it was first published. Each edition has varied from previous ones in spelling, punctuation, footnotes and in some cases, translation. Most of the differences are inconsequential. Some fix obvious problems in earlier editions. One persistent mistranslation is found in Matthew 23:24: “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Our translation (quoted here) retains the error of the first edition of the KJV. The error? One doesn’t strain at a gnat but rather strains out a gnat. The Greek diulizo means “to strain thoroughly” (throughly?). Before drinking a glass of water containing a gnat, you strain
