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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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Greek scholars.<br />

Professor W. F. Moulton had a very strong part<br />

in the selecting of the members who should serve<br />

on the English New Testament Revision<br />

Committee. Of this, his son, Professor James H.<br />

Moulton, says regarding Bishop Ellicott, leading<br />

promoter of revision, and chairman of the New<br />

Testament Revision Committee:<br />

“Doctor Ellicott had been in correspondence on<br />

Biblical matters with the young Assistant Tutor...<br />

His estimate of his powers was shown first by the<br />

proposal as to Winer, and not long after by the<br />

Bishop’s large use of my father’s advice in<br />

selecting new members of the Revision Company.<br />

Mr. Moulton took his place in the Jerusalem<br />

Chamber in 1870, the youngest member of the<br />

Company; and in the same year his edition of<br />

Winer appeared.”[21]<br />

Of Professor Moulton’s work, Bishop Ellicott<br />

writes:<br />

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