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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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This is another contribution by the new Version,<br />

which, with other passages of the same import,<br />

reveals a systematic presentation of the doctrine of<br />

Purgatory.<br />

Still another passage, this time from the Old<br />

Testament, reveals the tendency which the Revisers<br />

had in this direction.<br />

d. Job 26:5<br />

King James: “Dead things are formed from<br />

under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.”<br />

Revised: “They (“the shades” margin) that are<br />

deceased tremble beneath the waters and the<br />

inhabitants thereof.”<br />

It is very evident here that the Revisers did not<br />

have a Protestant mentality. On this passage we<br />

will quote from a member of the Old Testament<br />

Revision Committee (American):<br />

“In chapter 26 the senseless rendering of verse<br />

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