Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

emain. Evidence might be given to show
liberalism in other members. These men were
honorably bound to do justice to thousands of
manuscripts if they assumed to reconstruct a Greek
Text. We are informed by Dr. Scrivener that there
are 2,864 cursive and uncial manuscripts of the
New Testament in whole or in part. Price says
there are 112 uncials and 3,500 cursives. These
represent many different countries and different
periods of time. Yet astonishing to relate, the
majority of the Revisers ignored these and pinned
their admiration and confidence practically to two -
- the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
Doctor Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop
Westcott, and Dr. G. Vance Smith, came to the
Committee with past relationships that seriously
compromised them. Bishop Moberly “belonged to
the Oxford Movement, and, it is stated in Dean
Church’s ‘Life and Letters’ that he wrote a most
kind letter of approval to Mr. Newman as to the
famous Tract 90.”[50]
During the years when he was a schoolmaster,
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