And with this was thrown out the other like unto it in spurious
origin and zealous intent, that interpolation of the word "God" in
the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of the First Epistle to
Timothy, which had for ages served as a warrant for condemning some
of the noblest of Christians, even such men as Newton and Milton
and Locke and Priestley and Channing.
Indeed, so honest were the revisers that they substituted the
correct reading of Luke ii, 33, in place of the time-honoured
corruption in the King James version which had been thought
necessary to safeguard the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus of
Nazareth. Thus came the true reading, "His _father_ and his mother"
instead of the old piously fraudulent words "_Joseph_ and his mother."
An even more important service to the new and better growth of
Christianity was the virtual setting aside of the last twelve
verses of the Gospel according to St. Mark; for among these stood
that sentence which has cost the world more innocent blood than any
other--the words "He that believeth not shall be damned.
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