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But it is time to look at the new Bible. Mr. Darby has made a version and translated the New Testament into English, French, and German, for the benefit of the Christian public in general, and his own party in particular, being assisted by friends like minded with himself, on the continent and elsewhere. This version is used exclusively in their meetings on the continent, and looked on somewhat as Romanists look on the Vulgate, as little short of the divine original. Yet in all these versions, the worship of our Lord is determinedly and carefully excluded; nor were people aware of the ground on which it was excluded, until the last English edition, with a new preface, was published about two years ago. In the preface, Mr. Darby gives his doctrinal reasons, and in a note on Matt. iv. 10, his critical reasons.

We shall look at those, first noting the fifteen cases in which worship is given to Christ in the New Testament, placing at one side the common English and French versions, and at the other side Mr. Darby’s English and French versions, that the reader may be able to compare one with the other.