Tuesday, June 2, 2009

I'm going to keep slogging through this stuff because I believe it is critically important, so even if nobody is noticing how can I do anything else but try to make the case wherever I can?

It's terribly discouraging, of course, to realize that it probably doesn't matter what I present from Burgon for some people, because their minds have been organized around a whole contrary paradigm that has multiple points of support, and of course their view is shared by many others of high reputation.

Just for one small point, by now many of the fine observations Burgon made against the follies of the Revised Bible are simply lost to any hope of restoration, as the follies have become familiar to people and accepted as the "right" reading so that any other just "sounds" wrong. For instance Burgon shows why "bowls" should not replace "vials" in Revelation, why "love" should not replace "charity" for "agape," among many other such changes introduced by W&H, but by this time there is little hope of making the case for people accustomed to the wrong words in order to reinstate the old words. At least those who stick to the KJV will have them.

But that's a very minor point in the whole picture. The more I learn about the situation brought about by Westcott and Hort the more aghast I am at what an amazing amount of destruction they managed to accomplish in those ten years on that committee.

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