Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

were full of falsifications, which caused Beza to
say in his book on Illustrious Men, in the chapter
on the Vaudois, that one must confess it was by
means of the Vaudois of the Valleys that France
today has the Bible in her own language. This
godly man, Olivetan, in the preface of his Bible,
recognizes with thanks to God, that since the time
of the apostles, or their immediate successors, the
torch of the gospel has been lit among the Vaudois
(or the dwellers in the Valleys of the Alps, two
terms which mean the same), and has never since
been extinguished.”[28]
The Waldenses of northern Italy were foremost
among the primitive Christians of Europe in their
resistance to the Papacy. They not only sustained
the weight of Rome’s oppression but they were
successful in retaining the torch of truth until the
Reformation took it from their hands and held it
aloft to the world. Veritably they fulfilled the
prophecy in Revelation concerning the church
which fled into the wilderness where she hath a
place prepared of God. (Revelation 12:6, 14) They
rejected the mysterious doctrines, the hierarchal
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