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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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“This name then of ‘priest’ and ‘priesthood’<br />

properly so called, as St. Augustine saith, which is<br />

an order distinct from the laity and vulgar people,<br />

ordained to offer Christ in an unbloody manner in<br />

sacrifice to His heavenly Father for us, to preach<br />

and minister the sacraments, and to be the pastors<br />

of the people, they wholly suppress in their<br />

translations.”[5]<br />

6. Changes to support the teaching of the<br />

intermediate state<br />

Hebrews 9:27<br />

King James: “And as it is appointed unto men<br />

once to die, but after this the judgment.”<br />

Revised: “And inasmuch as it is appointed unto<br />

men once to die, and after this cometh judgment.”<br />

Canon Farrar claims that this change was<br />

deliberately made to emphasize the doctrine of the<br />

intermediate state of men after death, before being<br />

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