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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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only a conception of the whole but also a balanced<br />

conception, so that there will be no conflicts<br />

created through lack of skill on the part of the<br />

translator. That the giants of 1611 produced this<br />

effect and injured no doctrine of the Lord by their<br />

labors, may be seen in these few words from Sir<br />

Edmund Beckett, as, according to Gladstone,[31]<br />

he convincingly reveals the failure of the Revised<br />

Version:<br />

“Not their least service, is their showing us how<br />

very seldom the <strong>Authorized</strong> Version is materially<br />

wrong, and that no doctrine has been<br />

misrepresented there.”[32]<br />

To show the unrivaled English language of the<br />

King James <strong>Bible</strong>, I quote from Doctor William<br />

Lyon Phelps, Professor of English Literature in<br />

Yale University:<br />

“Priests, atheists, skeptics, devotees, agnostics,<br />

and evangelists, are generally agreed that the<br />

<strong>Authorized</strong> Version of the English <strong>Bible</strong> is the best<br />

example of English literature that the world has<br />

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