Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

in relation to Him ‘one act at once’ is in relation to
us an EVOLUTION apprehended in orderly
succession.”[13] (Caps. Mine).
Bishop Westcott’s interpretation of God’s work
in creation is evolution, making room for the long
geological ages. Hort considered Darwin’s theory
of evolution unanswerable.[14] Westcott and Hort,
whose Greek New Testament was the basis of the
Revised, inject evolution into the Revised Version.
b. Colossians 1:15, 16
King James: “Who is the image of the
invisible God, the first born of every creature: For
by Him were all things created.”
Revised: “Who is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were
all things created.”
Dr. G. Vance Smith, a member of the English
New Testament Revision Committee, commenting
on (Colossians 1:15, 16) says:
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