The Bible, it appeared, was the "greatest possession of the English race." "The British Bible" was the first and greatest of British investments and upon the moral dividends derived from its possession was founded the imperial greatness of this Island Empire.

That other peoples possessed the Bible and had even translated it before England was not so much as hinted at.

That the Bible was Greek and Hebrew in origin was never whispered.

It began and ended with the English Authorised Version.

The British Bible was the Bible that counted.