Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Early France -- which Bible?
In southern France, when in 177 A.D. the
Gallic Christians were frightfully massacred by the
heathen, a record of their suffering was drawn up
by the survivors and sent, not to the Pope of Rome,
but to their brethren in Asia Minor.[22] Milman
claims that the French received their Christianity
from Asia Minor.
These apostolic Christians in southern France
were undoubtedly those who gave effective help in
carrying the Gospel to Great Britain.[23] And as
we have seen above, there was a long and bitter
struggle between the Bible of the British Christians
and the Bible which was brought later to England
by the missionaries of Rome. And as there were
really only two Bibles, -- the official version of
Rome, and the Received Text, -- we may safely
conclude that the Gallic (or French) Bible, as well
as the Celtic (or British), were the Received Text.
Neander claims, as follows, that the first
Christianity in England, came not from Rome, but
from Asia Minor, probably through France:
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