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I saw a series about the evolution of English on youtube not so long ago and in one episode they talked about the period in which the KJV was written. Apparently words like Thee and Thou were already a bit dated even then but the translators wanted for their translation to sound old so that people could relate to it easier and so they used the older words even though they weren't used much (if at all) in common speech even at the time the translation was compiled. Sigmund Freud did something similar in his Interpretation of Dream which was published in 1899 but with a 1900 publication date. He wanted his book to reflect the new century with new patterns of thought on the subject so he had the publication date printed as though it was published first in the new century.
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