The point is that the King James Bible is giving the right text and translation at every particular place. By defending the Hebrew or Greek rather than the English is to say that not all the meaning is in the English, or that the English Bible is not complete alone, or that it is not the ultimate authority. In other words, it is to deny that God is restricting himself to one final book, even though it is prophesied, “Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read” (Isaiah 34:16a). If that book is not the King James Bible, what is it? It cannot finally be the multitude of slightly differing copies of the “Masoretic”, “Textus Receptus” and “Protestant Bibles”. It must come to pass that it be one gathered super-successionary form, which is the Word for the world.
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