WHICH BIBLE
BY
David Otis Fuller
French translation for Internet use only by
Jean leDuc et Alexandre Cousinier.
Mai 2024
- See also the following works in French:
La Bible authentique, quelle version; Nos bibles modernes falsifiées; La Doctrine des Saintes-Écritures.
EDITED BY
David Otis Fuller
Contributors include Terence H. Brown, Zane C. Hodges, Henry W. Coray, Robert Dick Wilson, Edward F. Hills, George Sayles Bishop, Sir Robert Anderson, Hermon C. Hoskier and Alfred Martin. Fifth Edition, Fully Indexed.
TRUE OR FALSE?
The second in the series giving evidence from leading conservative scholars that many of the new, so-called translations are founded on faulty manuscripts. Contributors include Joseph C. Philpot, Terence H. Brown, Louis Gaussen, Gordon P. Gardiner, Philip Mauro, John Wm. Burgon and Wilbur Norman Pickering.
COUNTERFEIT OR GENUINE?
A condensed and edited edition of John W. Burgon's unanswered and unanswerable masterpiece, The Last Twelve Verses of Mark together with contributions by Edward F. Hills, Samuel Zwemer and Donald L. Brake.
Grand Rapids International Publications P.O. Box 2607
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501
WHICH BIBLE
BOOKS BY DAVID OTIS FULLER
Which Bible?
True or False?
Counterfeit or Genuine?
Treasury of Evangelical Writings
Edited by
DAVID OTIS FULLER, D.D.
Fifth Edition
Grand Rapids International Publications Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501
Copyright © 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975 by Grand Rapids International Publications, a Division of Kregel, Inc. Ail rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Grand Rapids International Publications, P.O. Box 2607, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 70-129737 ISBN 0-8254-2612-X
Reprinted.................1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984
Printed in the United States of America
This book, being a book about the Holy Bible, is reverently dedicated to Him Who is the Chief and all glorious Subject of the Sacred Book, Who alone could say of the Holy Scriptures —
“They are they which testify of ME.”
The writers of some of the articles quoted in this book are now with the Lord, having faithfully served Him in their generation as earnest contenders for “the faith once delivered to the saints.” The compiler acknowledges the help derived from their writings and also from some who continue in the battle at this present time.
Zane C. Hodges, A.B., Th.M., Assistant Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, Dallas Theological Seminary.
E. F. Hills, A.B., (Yale), Th.D., (Harvard), author of The King James Version Defended, Believing Bible Study, etc.
The Reverend Henry W. Coray, pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Glenside, Pennsylvania. Author of the biographies in my book Valiant for the Truth, now published as A Treasury of Evangelical Writings.
The Reverend Terence H. Brown, Secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, London, England, who contributed the chapter entitled “The Learned Men.”
Jasper James Ray, who kindly permitted quotations from his excellent book, God, Wrote Only One Bible (Eye Opener Publishers, Box 77, Junction City, Oregon 97448).
The Reverend David Fountain, M.A., (Oxford), pastor of the Spring Road Evangelical Baptist Church, Sholing, Southampton, England.
Miss Betty Wood, my efficient secretary, who helped to collect the material and prepared the typescript.
Quoted material beginning on page 9 is from MASADA: Herod’s Fortress and the Zealot’s Last Stand, by Yigael Yadin, copyright © 1966 by Yigael Yadin. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
The individual contributors are responsible only for their respective articles and are not necessarily in agreement with every point in the other articles.
CONTENTS
Part 1
Why This Book?.......David Otis Fuller
The Learned Men......Terence H Brown
The Greek Text of the King James Version ...........Zane C. Hodges
II. The Majority Text Is a Revised, and Hence Secondary, Form of the Greek Text
III. The Readings of the Majority Text Are Repeatedly Inferior to Those of the Earlier Manuscripts
The Incomparable Wilson: The Man Who Mastered Forty-Five Languages and Dialects . . Henry W. Coray
Is The Higher Criticism Scholarly? . . Robert Dick Wilson
Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly?
The Old Testament Derived from Written Sources Based on Contemporary Documents
Agelong Correspondence in the Chronology of the Bible and Profane History
Correct Order and Character of the Kings
A Biblical Phenomenon Unequaled in the History of Literature
The Correctness of Hebrew Authors a Basis for Faith
Intruding Foreign Words as Date-Setters
The Ever-Changing Influx of New Words in Hebrew Scriptures
No Different from Our Own Language Today
Critics Undervalue the Totality of the Evidence
Why Are Persian Words Missing in Critic-Belated Bible Books?
How Greek Words May Have Crept into Daniel
Why Daniel May Have Used Persian Words
Hebraisms in Aramaic, Not Aramaisms in Hebrew
A Theory That Would Make All Documents Late
Hebrew Literary Forms Duplicated in Babylon and Egypt
The Same Is True of Legal Forms
An Argument from Silence Which Proves Nothing
Ample Time for the Revision of Laws
Were the Redactors Slipshod Editors?
Will Objectors Please Answer a Few Questions?
To the Text and to the Testimony
Why Do the Critics Reject Chronicles?
An Inconsistent Theory Made to Fit
Psalm Writers Would Not Have Absurdly Attributed Their Work to Pre-Captivity Authors
The “Jaddua” of Chronicles and of Josephus Not Necessarily the Same
Ewald Utterly Refuted in the Argument Regarding the Title “King of Persia”
Inexcusable Ignorance of Evidence on the Part of Notable Critics Exposed
Variations in Numbers Will Be Better Understood When Israel’s Numerical Signs Are Discovered
The Chronicler Need Not Have Copied from Kings
Prophecies That Contain No Persian or Greek Word
Nothing in 1800 Years of History to Invalidate the Old Testament
The Plan, Purpose, and People of the History of Redemption Offer a Reasonable Basis for Belief
A Parallel Monstrosity to the Denial of Old Testament History Imagined
Grovel for Beetles or Pluck Violets?
The Magnificent Burgon, Doughty Champion and Defender of the Byzantine Text. . . Edward F. Hills
The Canon and Text of the New Testament
The Principle and Tendency of the Revision Examined ..........George Sayles Bishop
The Bible and Modem Criticism . . Sir Robert Anderson
In Defense of the Textus Receptus........Selections by David Otis Fuller
The Codex Vaticanus and Its Allies. . . Herman C. Hoskier
A Critical Examination of the Westcott-Hort Textual Theory.........Alfred Martin
About the Author of “Our Authorized Bible Vindicated”.......David Otis Fuller
Our Authorized Bible Vindicated........Benjamin C. Wilkinson
I — False Knowledge Exalted Above Scriptures
III — Substituting Philosophy for Scripture
Fundamentally, There Are Only Two Streams of Bibles
The Reformers Reject the Bible of the Papacy
Tyndale’s Towering Genius Is Used To Translate Erasmus into English
Origin of the King James Version
Three Hundred Years of Attack upon the King James Bible
Their Collusion Previous to Revision
The Ruthless Changes Which Resulted