Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

land until the ninth hour, the sun’s light failing.”
Moffatt: “And darkness covered the whole
land till three o’clock, owing to an eclipse of the
sun.”
The Greek text of the Revisers on this passage
and the Greek text of Moffatt is the same; the
Greek text of the King James is different. The
Greek text of the Revisers says there was an eclipse
of the sun, (tou elion eklai pontos). Moffatt
honestly translated his mutilated Greek thus,
“owing to an eclipse of the sun.” The Revisers
failed to do it. Since an eclipse of the sun is
physically impossible at the time of a full moon
which was shining the night of Christ’s burial, this
shows that the Greek text of the Revisers, heralded
among us with high praises, was scientifically
incorrect and impossible. Moffatt was true to his
Greek, even if he had adopted same Greek MS. as
the Revisers. The Revisers were not.
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