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The devil is a counterfeiter.“Lucifer...thou hast said in thine heart,...Iwill belike the most High...” Isaiah 14:12,
13, 14Anything of value is going to be counterfeited
money,watches, famous paintings, and diamonds. We can alsoexpect counterfeits of the King James Bible, ‘the most highly’ sold and distributed book of all time. (‘I will be likethe KJV...’) A counterfeit must look as much like theoriginal as possible. The serpent was “moresubtilthan any beast of the field” (Gen. 3:1). Counterfeit twenty dollar bills have the words
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writtenon them, just like real ones. Counterfeit caricatures of thescriptures often carry letters similar to
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somewhere inthe title or on the cover, cloaking the corruption inside.King James (and his translators) never saw any of thesecounterfeit bibles with the King’s name on them. Thoughnew versions mock King James in their advertising, theymust put
his
name on it.Bankers can identify counterfeit money by holding it up tothe light. We can also hold counterfeit bibles up to the truelight of the word of God. Authentic KJVs have been printed by Cambridge University Press for hundreds of years. MostKJVs match this model. The text of the Cambridge LargePrint
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edition and the Cambridge Concord editionare the standards in spelling, punctuation and capitalization.
(The Cambridge Concord edition has some corrupt
marginal notes
.)
Other groups, like
the
Dean Burgon Society, were originallyfounded to uphold the standard and,“To inform believers about the danger of using and recommending Bibles which,whileclaiming to be the King JamesVersion, actually make changes in the text,
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