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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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special objects of hatred and persecution. ... Here<br />

for a thousand years, witnesses for the truth<br />

maintained the ancient faith. ... In a most<br />

wonderful manner it (the Word of Truth) was<br />

preserved uncorrupted through all the ages of<br />

darkness.”[52]<br />

The struggle against the <strong>Bible</strong> adopted by<br />

Constantine was won. But another warfare, another<br />

plan to deluge the Latin west with a corrupt Latin<br />

<strong>Bible</strong> was preparing. We hasten to see how the<br />

world was saved from Jerome and his Origenism.<br />

Note: The two great families of Greek <strong>Bible</strong>s<br />

are well illustrated in the work of that outstanding<br />

scholar, Erasmus. Before he gave to the<br />

Reformation the New Testament in Greek, he<br />

divided all Greek MSS. into two classes: those<br />

which agreed with the Received Text and those<br />

which agreed with the Vaticanus MS.[53]<br />

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