Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Ages and who seek to bring western nations back
to the theological thinking which prevailed before
the Reformation.
The founders of textual criticism
The founders of this critical movement were
Catholics. One authority pointing out two Catholic
scholars, says: “Meanwhile two great contributions
to criticism and knowledge were made in France:
Richard Simon, the Oratorian, published between
1689 and 1695 a series of four books on the text,
the versions, and the principal commentators of the
New Testament, which may be said to have laid the
foundation of modern critical inquiry: Pierre
Sabatier, the Benedictine, collected the whole of
the pre-Vulgate Latin evidence for the text of the
Bible.”[11]
So says a modernist of the latest type and held
in high repute as a scholar. Dr. Hort tells us that the
writings of Simon had a large share in the
movement to discredit the Textus Receptus class of
MSS. and Bibles. While of him and other
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