Today societies are accepting much more people's differences and beliefs, but in the XVII century, people just accepted the one "right" way to live according to the church and political opinion. People weren't free to take their own decision that might influence the society in any matter. King James was intrigued with correct language usage, and gave very strict orders of how to translate the Bible. "The words of the Bible should compe." (pg. 183) This was something that wasn't done frequently because people just did it one way that wasn't as complicated and as unambiguously as King James wanted the translation to be done. You could see that period of time as a communist country today, people are just accepted if they live accordingly to the president's actions and wills. People are just able to follow one regiment, and if they don't follow it, they will get in serious trouble. And if people want to leave, they have to pass by many problems before being able to leave. This is very similar to what happened in England, they wanted to leave in search of religious freedom. And in that, they were able to leave and met their wish, after confronting many problems with the society.
Many translations of the Bible have been made, and they have contradictions of what other translators have said (pg.195). This demonstrates that every translator has a different style of expressing the same text in different languages. "This atmosphere of holiness is made to reside in the strange, formal, ritualistic language of the seventeenth-century Bible."(pg.196) you can see that even though the translations use different language and writing styles they all try to keep the same basic idea of the text and somehow try to involve some historical context within the translation. I find this very important because what matters in this sort of text, is the significance, and not the style, and it's also very important to be able to keep some details to add a more thorough idea.
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