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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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The <strong>Authorized</strong> Version pictures to us the<br />

congregation, composed of Jews and Gentiles. By<br />

this distinction it reveals that a number of the<br />

Gentiles were present and desired all their Gentile<br />

friends to hear the same message the next Sabbath.<br />

Since the Sabbath came in for special mention (see<br />

verse 27), and since the Gentiles requested a<br />

special meeting on the following Sabbath, and<br />

waited for it, we see that the great truth announced<br />

by Christ, that “the Sabbath was made for man”<br />

(Mark 2:28), was brought home to the Gentiles. All<br />

this is lost in the Revised Version by failing to<br />

mention the Jews and the Gentiles. Thus the<br />

<strong>Authorized</strong> Version is consistent with itself<br />

throughout, a divine harmony. Here the Revised<br />

strikes an absolute discord. Does not this affect<br />

fundamental doctrine?<br />

11. Affecting scientific teaching of the <strong>Bible</strong><br />

a. Mark 7:19<br />

King James: “Because it entereth not into his<br />

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