Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

undertaking. Few indeed are the living names
worthy to be enrolled with those mighty men. It
would be impossible to convene out of any one
Christian denomination, or out of all, a body of
translators, on whom the whole Christian
community would bestow such confidence as is
reposed upon that illustrious company, or who
would prove themselves as deserving of such
confidence. Very many self-styled ‘improved
versions’ of the Bible, or of parts of it, have been
paraded before the world, but the religious public
has doomed them all, without exception, to utter
neglect.”[25]
The translators of the King James, moreover,
had something beyond great scholarship and
unusual skill. They had gone through a period of
great suffering. They had offered their lives that the
truths which they loved might live. As the
biographer of William Tyndale has aptly said, --
“So Tyndale thought; but God had ordained
that not in the learned leisure of a palace, but amid
the dangers and privations of exile should the
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