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The phrasing of the Bible in Basic English offers a fascinatingly stark shift in the semantics of divine agency and labor.

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A reading from Psalms 127:1

A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. - If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

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Stripping the syntax down to Basic English inevitably exposes the raw, utilitarian mechanism behind the theological framing.

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Is the word stripped of its mystery, or does the divine simply lose its weight in such plain speech?

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A reading from Psalms 119:129

PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful; Therefore doth my soul keep them.

Thy testimonies are wonderful.

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It reminds me of the dusty, pared-back editions we read by candlelight before everything became so cluttered.