Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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They seem to overlook the fact that this labor
of necessity is an argument for, rather than against
the dependability of the translations. Had each
word of the Bible been set in a cement cast,
incapable of the slightest flexibility and been kept
so throughout the ages, there could have been no
adaptability to the ever-changing structure of
human language. The artificiality of such a plan
would have eliminated the living action of the Holy
Spirit and would accuse both man and the Holy
Spirit of being without an intelligent care for the
divine treasure.
On this point the scholars of the Reformation
made their position clear under three different
aspects. First, they claimed that the Holy Scriptures
had come down to them unimpaired throughout the
centuries.[2] Second, they recognized that to
reform any manifest oversight was not placing
human hands on a divine work and was not
contrary to the mind of the Lord. Dr. Fulke says:
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