The King James Version of the Bible (4)

(A BIBLE FOR WHICH MEN DIED -- continued) But even more than the Greek New Testament, the Roman Church feared the translation of the Bible into the language of the people. In the Translators' Preface to the Reader we find the following reference to this attitude of the Roman Church: "So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the License of their own Bishops and Inquisitors....