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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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New Testament Revision Committee, may be<br />

gathered from the report given by Dr. Schaff of his<br />

visit to the home of Bishop Westcott, Durham,<br />

England, 1869. He said, --<br />

“Westcott and Hort’s Greek Testament I think<br />

will suit me exactly.”[24]<br />

Dr. Riddle tells us that in discussing the<br />

readings of the Greek New Testament to be<br />

adopted, that, “while in the vast majority of cases<br />

the preferences of the English Revisers were<br />

approved, this was due to independent<br />

judgment.”[25]<br />

Dr. Riddle further informs us that the Versions,<br />

English and American, are in substantial<br />

agreement.[26]<br />

While time does not permit to study<br />

theologically the individual members of these two<br />

committees, it is evident that Dr. Schaff carried<br />

into the committees, the atmosphere of his<br />

doctrines and European contacts. All the serious<br />

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