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Englisli version tlie translators have deliberately
changed the word or into and, making the apostle to*^
say, " Whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this
cnp." Eor this interpolation there is not the slight- y,
est excnse ; and the only motive for the change was
to attack the Catholic practice of Communion in one
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Also, in the account of the institution of the Holy
Eucharist, St. Matt. xxvi. 26, they have inserted the
pronoun it without the slightest warrant of the origi-
nal. The Greek text reads: "And while they were
at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke,
and gave to His disciples, and said : ' ' Take ye and
eat: this is my body." The translators of King
James make it read : "Jesus took bread, and blessed
it, and broke it, and gave it to His disciples." One
can hardly fail to see here the intention to attack the
Real Presence, and make our Lord to speak of the
bread as bread only, after His benediction.
Although this edition of King James has been gene-
rally received among English Protestants, still it has
not been regarded as an absolute authority among
them. The different sects have had their own trans-
lations and their own commentaries. There is a ver-
sion of the New Testament, made by Campbell, Mc-
Knight, and Doddridge, in which the words baptism
and baptize are rendered by immersion and immerse.
103 Tmibd Lecture.
A new revision is now being made by scholars of
tlie Churcli of England, and the principal Protestant
chnrclies here and abroad, on the ground of the in-
correctness of the KiQg James Bible in many respects.
