A Grievous Wolf - Time for Truth

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ere the common version quietly and exclusively occupied the field.” It remains “the standard version”
as Pastor J. A. Moorman’s comment in When The KJV Departs From The “Majority” Text p 28 shows.
Rev Moorman is addressing ‘minority’ readings in the AV1611 but his comments apply to all AV1611*
readings. *The 2011 AV1611 readings that God continues to honour.
“When a version has been the standard as long as the Authorized Version, and when that version has
demonstrated its power in the conversion of sinners, building up of believers, sending forth of preachers
and missionaries on a scale not achieved by all other versions and foreign language editions combined;
the hand of God is at work. Such a version must not be tampered with. And in those comparatively few
places where it seems to depart from the majority reading [or from however many supposedly ‘improved’
readings], it would be far more honouring toward God’s promises of preservation to believe
that the Greek and not the English had strayed from the original!”
Grievous Wolf complains about what he terms “ONE “17 th Century English” translation.”
Would Wolf prefer more than one Saviour? God says no.
“I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour” Isaiah 43:11.
Would Wolf prefer more than one God? God says no.
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is
none like me,” Isaiah 46:9.
Would Wolf prefer more than one Mediator? God says no.
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” 1 Timothy
2:5.
Would Wolf prefer more than one sacrifice for sins forever? God says no.
“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of
God;” Hebrews 10:12.
Would Wolf prefer more than one body, one Spirit, one hope 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17, one Lord, one
faith, one baptism into Jesus Christ, Romans 6:3, one God and Father of all? God says no.
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one
faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all”
Ephesians 4:4-6. Note the seven-fold aspects of God’s manifold blessing in Ephesians 4:4-6, like “the
seven spirits of God” Revelation 3:1, 4:5, 5:6. See also Isaiah 11:2.
It should also be noted that the 1611 Holy Bible is not a ““17 th Century English” translation” i.e. limited
to 17 th century English as Wolf tries to imply. Dr Hills’s remarks on the supposed ““17 th Century
English” translation” are informative. See The King James Version Defended p 218, wildernesscry.net/bible_study/books/kjv-defended/chapter8.html.
“The English of the King James Version is not the English of the early 17 th century. To be exact, it is
not a type of English that was ever spoken anywhere. It is biblical English, which was not used on ordinary
occasions even by the translators who produced the King James Version. As H. Wheeler Robinson
(1940) pointed out, one need only compare the preface written by the translators with the text of
their translation to feel the difference in style. And the observations of W. A. Irwin (1952) are to the
same purport. The King James Version, he reminds us, owes its merit, not to 17 th -century English —
which was very different — but to its faithful translation of the original. Its style is that of the Hebrew
and of the New Testament Greek. Even in their use of thee and thou the translators were not following
17 th -century English usage but biblical usage, for at the time these translators were doing their work
these singular forms had already been replaced by the plural you in polite conversation.”
Concerning ““the word of God” prior to 1611,” see Question 6 with reference to “the Spanish Valera
1602 Purificada” that Dr Mrs Riplinger mentions. See also Dr Ruckman’s summary in The Christian’s
Handbook of Biblical Scholarship pp 110-117, with respect to 16 th century bibles beginning with Luther’s
Bible that were followed by translations from Luther’s text into Dutch, Danish, Icelandic, Slavic,
Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Lithuanian etc. To those may be added the Tyndale, Coverdale,