Re: Pater Noster (purely linguistically)

Geoff Horswood scripsit:

> How many modern translations would you like?
Indeed.  For non-religious purposes, though, the KJV is still important
for two reasons: it is public domain everywhere, escaping the dreaded
copyright police, and it is (unlike any other version) foundational
to English literature: there are too many works that simply can't be
understood unless the foundation of their diction in the KJV (sometimes
by way of reversal or parody) is perceived.  Shakespeare's plays and
the KJV came about at the same time, and every later work in English
owes them at least something.

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