Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. After Henry the Eighth's rupture with the Pope the following order was issued, to counteract if possible" the advance of sacerdotal superstition: Every parson or proprietary of every parish church within this realm, shall provide a book of the whole Bible, both in Latin and in English, and lay the same in the choir, for every man that will to read and look therein; and shall discourage no man from reading any part of the Bible, but rather comfort, exhort, and admonish every man to read the same, as the very Word of God and the spiritual food of man's soul." (H. O. Mackey.) Parallel Verses KJV: To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. |
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