Authorized Version

The name Authorized Version is not a happy one, for so far as the records go it was never authorized either by the King or the bishop; and, even if it were, the authority does not extend beyond the English Church, which is a very small fraction of those who use it.

The Greatest English Classic 1912

The scholars who produced the translation of the Scriptures known as the Authorized Version could certainly write well; yet if you examine their Dedication, in which, uninfluenced by the noble sincerity of the Bible's style, they were free to follow the fashion, you may find there the two faults of Elizabethan prose; namely, the habit of servile flattery and the sham of euphuism.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

In the Authorized Version that phrase is repeated three times, in verses 44, 46, and 48.

Myths About the King James Bible by David Cloud There Are No Doctrinal Differences Between Bible Texts and Versions 1986

[3] Scriptural passages are quoted from the Authorized Version, any significant divergences in the text being indicated by footnotes.

Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

If the translators of the Authorized Version had done this, one of the supports of an ancient error would have been knocked down.

Love's Final Victory Horatio

Primal Curse, which is not -- as the Authorized Version suggests -- the knowledge of good and evil, but the knowledge of good-and-evil.

The Longest Journey 1924

Revised Version now supplements the "Hail, thouthat art highly favoured" of the original Authorized Version by the marginal alternative, "Hail thou, endued with grace".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Wesley removed the futile circumlocution of the Authorized Version and gave the only possible rendering, as the Revised Version did later.

The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations 1913

Again the Authorized Version frequently ignores that important canon of translation which ordains that different words in the original shall be rendered by different words in the version.

The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations 1913

The Authorized Version calls them "songs of degrees"; the Revised

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913