Your answers
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.