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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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your mind ... as that the day of the Lord is now<br />

present.”<br />

When an event is “at hand” it has not yet come;<br />

but when it is “now present” it is here. Without<br />

offering an opinion which is the correct rendering,<br />

there is certainly here a change of doctrine. If the<br />

day of the Lord “is now present,” it is in no sense,<br />

“at hand.”<br />

d. Titus 2:13<br />

King James: “Looking for that blessed hope<br />

and the glorious appearing of the great God and our<br />

Saviour Jesus Christ.”<br />

Revised: “Looking for the blessed hope and<br />

appearing of the glory of the great God and our<br />

Saviour Jesus Christ.”<br />

By changing the adjective “glorious” to the<br />

noun “glory,” the Revisers have removed the<br />

Second Coming of Christ from this text. In the<br />

King James Version the object of our hope is the<br />

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