Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

the New Testament are possessed of this ‘vital
interest and practical value.’ The Old Testament
ritual and sacrificial system, with their deep lessons
and their forward look to the atonement through
the death of Christ are gone. As a result of this, the
New Testament references to Christ as the
fulfillment of the Old Testament sacrifices are
omitted. Such verses as ‘Behold the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of the world,’ are gone.
“Whole books of the Old Testament are gone.
Some of the richest portions of the books of the
prophets are missing. From the New Testament
they have omitted 4,000 verses. Other verses are
cut in two, and a fragment left us, for which we are
duly thankful. The great commission recorded in
Matthew; the epistles of Titus, Jude, First and
Second John, are entirely omitted, and but twentyfive
verses of the second epistle of Timothy
remain. The part of the third chapter of Romans
which treats of human depravity, being ‘of no
practical value to the present age,’ is omitted. Only
one verse remains from the fourth chapter. The
twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew and other
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