Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

years it continued to be the textbook even in
Roman Catholic schools of Saxony. Here the
names might be added of Beza, the great scholar
and coworker with Calvin, of Bucer, of Cartwright,
of the Swiss scholars of the Reformation, of a host
of others who were unsurpassed in learning in their
day and have never been surpassed since. It was
said of one of the translators of the King James that
“such was his skill in all languages, especially the
Oriental, that had he been present at the confusion
of tongues at Babel, he might have served as
Interpreter-General.”[12]
In view of the vast stores of material which
were available to verify the certainty of the Bible at
the time of the Reformation, and the prodigious
labors of the Reformers in this material for a
century, it is very erroneous to think that they had
not been sufficiently overhauled by 1611.
It is an exaggerated idea, much exploited by
those who are attacking the Received Text, that we
of the present have greater resources of
information, as well as more valuable, than had the
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