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At my friends congregation, they have a really old songbook in the library that I leafed through. In it there was a song about Jesus and the cross.
I suggested to my wife and friends that this song would be an improvement over some of the ones in the new songbook!
Usage of the ASV by Jehovah's Witnesses
The ASV has been used for many years by the Jehovah's Witnesses. The reasons for their choosing of the ASV were twofold: its usage of "Jehovah" as the Divine Name, which was congruent with their doctrine, and they derived their name from Isaiah 43.10, 12, both of which contain the phrase, "Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah." Also, there was a perception that the ASV had improved the translation of some verses in the King James Version, and in other places it reduced the verses that they found to be erroneously translated in the KJV to mere footnotes, removed from the main text altogether. [ 2 ]
Jehovah's Witnesses' publishing organization, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, had printed its own edition of the King James Version since 1926, but did not obtain the rights to print ASV until 1944. From 1944 to 1992, they printed and distributed over a million copies of the ASV. By the 1960s, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, made by members of their group and the rights to which they controlled, had largely replaced ASV as the Bible used most by Witnesses. [ 3 ] Jehovah's Witnesses publications have continued to quote ASV renderings of Scripture, and have noted, "it would be good to have in your personal library the Authorized Version and the American Standard Version". [ 4 ]
Rutherford changed cross to stake during his reign, whilst on the rampage to make JWs as isolated from others in as many areas as possible.
