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translators of 1611. The Reformers themselves<br />

considered their sources of information perfect.<br />

Doctor Fulke says:<br />

“But as for the Hebrew and Greek that now is,<br />

(it) may easily be proved to be the same that<br />

always hath been; neither is there any diversity in<br />

sentence, howsoever some copies, either through<br />

negligence of the writer, or by any other occasion,<br />

do vary from that which is commonly and most<br />

generally received in some letters, syllables, or<br />

words.”[13]<br />

We cannot censure the Reformers for<br />

considering their sources of information sufficient<br />

and authentic enough to settle in their minds the<br />

infallible inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, since<br />

we have a scholar of repute to-day rating their<br />

material as high as the material of the present.<br />

Doctor Jacobus thus indicates the relative value of<br />

information available to Jerome, to the translators<br />

of the King James, and to the Revisers of 1900:<br />

159

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