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12 July 2013

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Many churches built in the 19th century and dedicated to the Holy Trinity are Evangelical. Why is this? Did any other new parishes of a different tradition ever use this dedication? [Answers, 21 June]

Missing from the answers published is the Most Holy Trinity, Hoxton, in London, consecrated in 1848.

When I was an assistant curate there in the 1960's, the local people called it simply "Trinity". My Vicar, the late Fr Kenneth Loveless, besides being an Honorary Rear-Admiral, President of the International Concertina Association, Squire of the Morris Ring of England, and County Commissioner for Boy Scouts, had the loudest voice in the Church of England.

Holy Trinity was very much a local congregation. All the people who came could walk to the church in five to ten minutes. Indeed, if any people from elsewhere on the "spiky" church circuit came, they were allowed three Sundays, after which Loveless said: "It has been good to see you. Now you will return to your parish church, where you are needed."

(The Revd Dr) Ken Leech,  Mossley, Ashton under Lyne

Your questions 

Why are there discrepancies between the text of the Authorised Version which I read at home, published by Collins under licence from the Lord Advocate, and the text that I read from the lectern at evensong in my London parish church, published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)? For example, whereas the Collins text has Moses entering the Tabernacle, the CUP text has him entering the tent of the meeting. In a passage about Cain, the Collins Bible refers to a "vagabond", but the CUP Bible refers to a "wanderer". I assume there was no difference in the texts first issued in England or Scotland. Who decided to make the small emendations, why, and when? The Collins text seems more archaic and, therefore, probably closer to the original.

J. T.

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