Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

ecords have been the object of God’s infinite
solicitude.
The divine Saviour and the holy apostles spoke
beforehand of events which would occur even to
the end of time. Of what value would such a
prophetic revelation be, if it were not to guide
those who would pass through the predicted
scenes, and if it were not to warn the wicked and
encourage the good? This value, however, would
be destroyed if the words foretelling the events, the
meaning of the events, and the prediction of
rewards and punishments were so tampered with
that the force of the divine utterance was destroyed.
Moreover the very fact that the Word could make
such a prediction not only stamps the Word as
divine but condemns as wicked, yes, points out as
being the predicted apostasy, that system which
would either tamper with the Word, or make the
Word secondary. The writing of the Word of God
by Inspiration is no greater miracle than the
miracle of its preservation.
The pathetic question of Pilate, “What is
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