Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

were biased by their pro-Protestant views. The
reader must judge whose bias he will accept, that
of the influence of the Protestant Reformation, as
heading up in the Authorized Version, or that of
the influence of Darwinism, higher criticism,
incipient modern religious liberalism, and a
reversion back to Rome, as heading up in the
Revised Version. If we select the latter bias, we
must remember that both higher criticism and
Romanism reject the authority of the Bible as
supreme.
The predominant ideas of the respective times
of their births influenced and determined the
essential characteristics of the Authorized and
Revised Versions. The following chapters will
establish the truthfulness of the position just stated.
Notes:
1. Hemphill, History of the R. V., p. 25.
2. Hemphill, History of the R. V., p. 24.
3. Idem, p. 26.
4. Salmon, p. 7.
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