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Add passage about KJV as wellspring of English language
Include cultural references (Lincoln, King) in sidenote margin. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<p><span class="newthought">Welcome to KJV Study</span>, a digital resource for studying the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures.<label for="sn-welcome" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input type="checkbox" id="sn-welcome" class="margin-toggle"/><span class="sidenote">This digital edition presents the 1769 Oxford Standard text, enriched with apparatus drawn from judicious commentators and modern scholarship. Scripture is profitable 'for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness' (2 Timothy 3:16)—yet such profit requires more than cursory reading.</span> This site provides the complete text of the King James Bible enriched with original language analysis, cross-references, historical context, and theological commentary—instruments designed to help both the careful scholar and the earnest student understand God's Word more deeply.</p>
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<p><span class="newthought">The King James Bible</span> is not merely a translation—it is the wellspring of English itself.<label for="sn-wellspring" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input type="checkbox" id="sn-wellspring" class="margin-toggle"/><span class="sidenote">When Lincoln spoke of 'a house divided,' when King dreamed from the mountaintop, when the weary whisper 'thy will, not mine'—they drew from this well.</span> For four centuries, its cadences have shaped how we speak of love and death, justice and mercy, the weight of truth and the gravity of oath. To study the King James is to study the foundations of the language. To read it is to hear the echo beneath all English prose that reaches for the sacred.</p>
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