"Thy Circumcision Is Prepuce": English Translation and the Bible

From The Bishop's Bible, 1569: Forerunner to the King James Bible. Notice Queen Elizabeth getting the treatment from Prudence, Fortitude, Mercy, and Justice. Any guesses as to the politics of this translation...?Bible translators often found phrases and words in other translations so felicitous that they "stole" them for their own versions. Happy phrasings in the late medieval and early modern period typically stuck in the memory of people the way that pop-phrases ("Show me the money!" "The Force be with you") do in ours, and it was often thought to be playing the game to retain them.

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