Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

“But perhaps the most surprising change of all
is (John 5:39). It is no longer ‘Search the
Scriptures,’ but ‘Ye search;’ and thus Protestantism
has lost the very cause of its being.”
Other changes of passages, which we
investigate following this, affect the great doctrines
of truth; the change now under consideration
affects the very citadel of truth itself. The Church
of England Convocation, which called the Revision
Committee into existence, authorized that
Committee to correct only “plain and clear errors”
in the
Received Text. Neither Convocation, nor
Protestant England expected it to be changed in
thousands of places.
When the Revised Version declares that parts
of the Bible may not have been inspired of God, (as
in 2 Timothy 3:16), the defendant is forced to bear
witness against itself. So far as the Revised Version
is concerned, the change destroys the infallibility
of that glorious citadel of revelation which for
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