Happy 400th birthday to one of the wonders of English prose that became a global phenomenon -- the 17th-century translation of the Bible ordered by James I of England so his subjects could hear and understand the word of God. Like the Tower of London and its attendant ravens, the Authorised Version of the Bible (the AV, a.k.a. the King James Bible) stands as a monument at the heart of the English-speaking world and is used by Protestants around the globe.
