Editing Revised Standard Version (section)

=== Protest ===
Some opponents of the RSV took their antagonism beyond condemnation. Luther Hux, a pastor in [[Rocky Mount, North Carolina]], announced his intention to [[Book burning|burn]] a copy of the RSV during a sermon on November 30, 1952. This was reported in the press and attracted shocked reactions, as well as a warning from the local fire chief. On the day in question, he delivered a two-hour sermon entitled "The National Council Bible, the Master Stroke of Satan—One of the Devil's Greatest Hoaxes". After ending the sermon, he led the congregation out of the church, gave each worshipper a small American flag and proceeded to set light to the pages containing Isaiah 7:14. Hux informed the gathered press that he did not burn the Bible, but simply the "fraud" that the Isaiah pages represented. Hux later wrote a [[Tract (literature)|tract]] against the RSV entitled ''Modernism's Unholy Bible''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Johannes Thuesen|author-link=Peter Johannes Thuesen|title=In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Parz1Sxd8BsC&pg=PA97|date=1 May 2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515228-9|pages=96–98}}</ref>

The RSV translators linked these events to the life of [[William Tyndale]], an inspiration to them, explaining in their preface: "He met bitter opposition. He was accused of willfully perverting the meaning of the Scriptures, and his New Testaments were ordered to be burned as 'untrue translations.'" But where Tyndale was strangled and then burned at the stake for his work, [[Bruce Metzger]], referring to the pastor who burned the RSV and sent the ashes to [[Luther Weigle]], commented in his book ''The Bible In Translation'': "today it is happily only a copy of the translation that meets such a fate" instead of Bible translators.<ref name="Metzger2001">{{cite book|author=Bruce M. Metzger|title=The Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions|url=https://archive.org/details/bibleintranslati0000metz|url-access=registration|date=1 October 2001|publisher=Baker Academic|isbn=978-0-8010-2282-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bibleintranslati0000metz/page/120 120]–}}</ref>