When Life Loses Purpose

When people are working as a team, there is always one member who does most of the job, simply because he/she wants the job to be done effectively, is more capable and is probably more interested in the whole process. During the creation of The King James Bible, England’s finances weren’t doing well. James was spending all of Cecil’s profit in social activities and his Bible’s translators, who weren’t being paid much. “By the end of the decade, royal finances were nowhere near capable of paying for the project.” –Pg. 199 Great men, with huge interests as Bois was, one of the Bible’s translators, sacrificed their lives for this bible. Bois was the perfect person to execute the job. He was totally committed to it’s creation and was more interested in it than in his own family. “This is perhaps someone you would admire; it is not a man you would love.” –Pg. 207 His job was done quickly and he helped other colleagues to do their jobs, receiving little or no credit for it. This was his tragedy, not being able to be appreciated for his job, for receiving any recognition for having sacrificed so much.

The bible was meant to unite all of the Bible-following branches of King James’s religion, so it had to be simple and effective, carrying all of the bible’s original messages in an impartial, articulate and easy-to-read version. “The English sentences were being prepared for others, the non-educated, who had no access to the essence to the text, which these scholars, like Bois, had been drinking in for decades. The English, in other words, was itself subservient to the original Greek.” –Pg. 210 All the translators were of educated origins, and they were able to carry out their message in a beautiful version with simplicity which was due to huge discussions of which the final conclusions weren’t accredited to Bois, a person who had given his life for this project which was his most desired creation and had finally driven him to his death. “These men are interested not only in clarity and fidelity but in a grandeur of statement which colours the translation as a whole.” –Pg. 212 The making of King James’s bible was finally finished because of the sacrifices made by the translators, mainly Bois, who put all his energy and passion to share the message to all social classes through this sublime masterpiece.