Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

the composition of the Authorized Version was
recognized by scholars as the miracle of English
prose, unsurpassed in clearness, precision, and
vigor. The English of the King James Bible was the
most perfect, if not the only, example of a lost art.
It may be said truthfully that literary men as well as
theologians frowned on the revision enterprise.[3]
For years there had been a determined and
aggressive campaign to take extensive liberties
with the Received Text; and the Romanizing
Movement in the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge, both ritualistic and critical, had made it
easy for hostile investigators to speak out with
impunity.
Lachmann had led the way by ignoring the
great mass of manuscripts which favored the
printed text and built his Greek New Testament, as
Salmon says, of scanty material.[4] Tregelles,
though English, “Was an isolated worker, and
failed to gain any large number of adherents.”[5]
Tischendorf, who had brought to light many
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