Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

The seven members of this English New
Testament Revision Committee sent out invitations
which were accepted by eighteen others, bringing
the full membership of the English New Testament
Revision Committee to the number of twenty-five.
As we have seen before, Dr. Newman, who later
became a cardinal, declined, as also did the leader
of the Ritualistic Movement, Dr. Pusey. It should
be mentioned here also that Canon Cook, editor of
the “Speakers Commentary,” declined. W. F.
Moulton, who had spent some years in translating,
from the German into English, Winer’s Greek
Grammar, and himself a member of the
Committee, exercised a large influence in the
selection of its members. Dr. Moulton favored
those modern rules appearing in Winer’s work
which, if followed in translating the Greek, would
produce results different from that of the King
James. How much Dr. Moulton was a devotee of
the Vulgate may be seen in the following words
from him:
“The Latin translation, being derived from
manuscripts more ancient than any we now
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