Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Testament Committee did the same. This
arrangement left the committee at the mercy of a
determined triumvirate to lead the weak and to
dominate the rest. All reports indicate that an iron
rule of silence was imposed upon these Revisers
during the ten years. The public was kept in
suspense all the long, weary ten years. And only
after elaborate plans had been laid to throw the
Revised Version all at once upon the market to
effect a tremendous sale, did the world know what
had gone on.
The giants of learning
No one can study the lives of those men who
gave us the King James Bible without being
impressed with their profound and varied learning.
“It is confidently expected,” says McClure,
“that the reader of these pages will yield to the
conviction that all the colleges of Great Britain and
America, even in this proud day of boastings, could
not bring together the same number of divines
equally qualified by learning and piety for the great
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