In a very recent post titled "Elder C.H. Cayce on the KJV" (here) I cited from Cayce's Editorial Writings to show that Cayce did not believe that the KJV was inspired nor always right or better in its translation of many texts of scripture. I wish to add another example where Cayce affirmed that the Revised Version was a better translation of Roman 6: 17. That editorial was titled "Romans 6:17" and appeared in the March 13, 1917 issue of his paper "The Primitive Baptist." In it Cayce wrote (emphasis mine):
"Brother J. B. Adams, Farmington, Ky., requests our views of (Romans 6:17), and
asks, "Why should God be thanked that we were once the servants of sin?" - That
text reads, in the King James translation, "But God be thanked, that ye were the
servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you." It is not the teaching of the apostle here that we are to thank God
that we were once the servants of sin. At least, that is not what we think he meant
to teach. The idea is that he thanked God that they are not servants of sin now,
though they once were. - The original language, as is more clearly expressed in the
Revised Translation, has in it the idea that could more clearly be expressed in
modern English in this way, "But God be thanked that, whereas ye were servants of
sin, ye have obeyed from the heart," etc. Another idea which is not clearly brought
out in the King James translation is that they were delivered, and that, for this
reason, they are no more the servants of sin. The idea is, "unto which, ye were
delivered." They were delivered from the power and dominion of sin; though they
were once the servants of sin, Paul thanked God that they were no more the
servants of sin; they have been delivered from that and have obeyed from the
heart that form of teaching or doctrine unto which they had been delivered. Their hearts were made good when they were thus delivered. Hence they obeyed from a
heart that had been made good. They were first made children of God, and then
they obeyed."
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