A Grievous Wolf - Time for Truth

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See the extensive remarks under Question 47 and note that Grievous Wolf can identify only two of the
additional “many hundreds of changes” to which he alludes, i.e. in Questions 47, 48, and cannot point
the reader to any documented source where they may be found.
Grievous Wolf is clearly seeking to raise doubts about the validity of the 1611 Holy Bible, like his mentor
has always sought to do. See Question 31.
“Yea, hath God said...?” Genesis 3:1.
See again Questions 28, 30, with respect to the purification process of Psalm 12:6, 7 that Grievous Wolf
still doesn’t understand. See additional remarks under Questions 43.
Some further material in answer to Question 49 may be inserted as follows, from this writer’s response
to the attack by Dr Donald Waite of The Dean Burgon Society against Dr Mrs Riplinger and Hazardous
Materials in his book A WARNING!! This material has been inserted to show that Bible believers have
researched the issues that Grievous Wolf raises in Question 49. He has clearly not researched those issues
himself, according to the exhortation in Romans 12:17 to “Provide things honest in the sight of all
men.” See Question 14.
See www.timefortruth.co.uk/why-av-only/james-white-dr-divietro-and-dawaite.php.
Historian Alexander McClure [in Translators Revived pp 223-224] Dr Ruckman, Differences in the
King James Version Editions and Dr Grady report on the work of the American Bible Society in comparing
various editions of the AV1611. The society published the results of this work in 1852.
Alexander McClure states, his emphases that “A very able Committee of the American Bible Society,
spent some three years in a diligent and laborious comparison of recent copies of the best edition of the
American Bible Society, and of the four leading British editions, namely, those of London, Oxford,
Cambridge, and Edinburgh, and also of the original edition of 1611. The number of variations in the
text and punctuation of these six copies was found to fall but little short of twenty-four thousand. A vast
amount! Quite enough to frighten us, till we read the Committee’s assurance, that “of all this great
number, there is not one which mars the integrity of the text, or affects any doctrine or precept of the
Bible.””
(It should be noted that Professor David Norton is author of probably the definitive contemporary review
of differences between the AV1611 editions entitled A Textual History of the King James Bible
and editor of The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha, NCPB, which consists of the
King James Text as edited by Dr Scrivener for the original Cambridge Paragraph Bible with some further
amendments by Professor Norton. Professor Norton dismisses the conclusions of the American Bible
Society as “nonsense” and denigrates the text of the current 1611 English Holy Bible, i.e. Professor
Blaney’s 1769 Text, as found in the Cambridge Wide Margin Cameo Edition and the Cambridge Concord
Edition as “fossilised” and “mutated,” in urgent need of much improvement with respect to
spelling, punctuation and presentation. See A Textual History pp 120, 125-126. However, apart from
the kind of differences mentioned by the society, Professor Norton does not provide any examples of serious
variation between the various AV1611 editions that would mar the integrity of the AV1611 Text,
so Bible believers are urged to remain faithful to the current copies of the AV1611 that they already
possess. Scrivener’s original Cambridge Paragraph Bible did not receive wide circulation compared
with extant AV1611s and in this writer’s view, neither will any successor to it. Professor Norton’s
NCPB was published several years ago and does not seem even to have begun to displace either the
Cambridge Wide Margin Cameo Edition or the Cambridge Concord Edition. God seems to be ignoring
Professor Norton’s efforts in that respect. For a more detailed analysis of Professor Norton’s efforts,
see www.timefortruth.co.uk/content/pages/documents/1316973114.pdf.)
Dr Ruckman and Dr Grady cite the conclusions of the Society: “The English Bible as left by the translators
has come down to us unaltered in respect of its text...With the exception of typographical errors
and changes required by the progress of orthography in the English language, the text of our present
Bibles remains unchanged, and without variation from the original copy as left by the translators...The
present copies of the Bible accord throughout with the edition of 1611.”