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David Otis Fuller (1903-1988) was a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and Princeton Theological Seminary. He pastored Chelsea Baptist Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the well known Wealthy Street Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has also edited Which Bible? (5th Edition) and True or False?.

As with his other books mentioned above, this book is a collection of the writings of others, such as John Burgon ("The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to Mark") and Samuel Zwemner.

Here are some quotations from the book:

"This is a David and Goliath battle with practically all of the evangelical seminaries and colleges, Bible institutes, and Bible schools slavishly following essentially the Westcott and Hort Greek Text and the Westcott and Hort theory, both of which are fallacious in every particular, the former based on two of the worst manuscripts, the latter proved to be without foundation of any kind." (Pg. 12)
"When, for example, it is contended that the famous words in St. John's First Epistle (I John 5:7-8) are not to be regarded as genuine, the fact that they are away from almost every known codex is accepted as a proof that they were also away from the autograph of the Evangelist. On far less weighty evidence, in fact, we are at all times prepared to yield the hearty assent of our understanding in this department of sacred science." (Pg. 39)
"So, then, the last twelve verses of St. Mark's Gospel were anciently often observed to be missing from the copies. Eusebius expressly says so. I observe that he nowhere says that their genuineness was anciently suspected. As for himself, his elaborate discussion of their contents convinces me that indivdiually he regarded them with favor." (Pg. 112)
"It is true that God has not permitted any of the original manuscripts to be preserved. The reason for it has been left to speculation. Perhaps God did not wish for them to become objects of veneration. Whatever the reason, God in His providence permitted all the original manuscripts to perish." (Pg. 187)

One of the quickest and simplest tests you can perform to check whether a given English Bible version has been corrupted by unsound theories of textual criticism is to see how it handles Mark 16:9-20 and John 7:53-8:11. These two groups of 12 verses each are the two longest portions of New Testament scripture that have been challenged by modern textual critics, but as this book overwhelmingly reminds us, few portions of scripture are more surely attested to or more convincingly proved to have been parts of their respective books from the beginning.

Most of this book consists of a condensation of John W. Burgon's unanswered and unanswerable "The Last Twelve Verses of Mark" in which he so completely demolishes the theory that this portion of Mark is spurious that those who for illogical reasons would prefer to continue to believe it spurious have been forced to close their eyes, clamp their hands over their ears, and chant "All hail Codex Vaticanus!" until the scary people with facts give up and go away. Those who would condemn the other twelve verse section, the famous story of the woman taken in adultery in John are in a slightly less ridiculous position vis-à-vis the facts (according to the section of Dean Burgon's "The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels" about "The Pericope de Adultera" also reprinted herein) but only in comparison to the position of those who condemn the last twelve verses of Mark on the basis of a SINGLE very old (and very obviously corrupt) manuscript that leaves a blank column, the only blank column in the entire manuscript, at the end of the Gospel of Mark (proving that the older, lost manuscript it was originally copied from had in fact contained the allegedly later added verses) against ALL the Versions, ALL the Fathers, ALL other manuscripts, and most importantly ALL the Lectionaries. Then, not satisfied with merely proving the genuineness of these two sections, particularly through the evidence of the Lectionaries, Dean Burgon goes on to explain how the annotating of Bible manuscripts for additional use as Lectionaries perversely may have caused the confusion that lead to so many portions of scripture being mistakenly excised from Codex Vaticanus in the first place!

Note: The argument that began in Which Bible? and True or False? The Westcott-Hort Textual Theory Examined thus concludes.

David Otis Fuller,D.D.
intro with
Edward F.Hills
Dean John W.Burgon
Samuel Zwemer
Donald L.Brake essays
to get quick look
into religion
learning as if by accident
about Dean John W.Burgon

and scribes and pharesees and critics
all the worst of the baddest
are wiped out
from the list of respected
and i pray to my Lord
give them another chance
to come clean
from the rubbish they engulfed in
for the past 150 years to have
our Lord our Saviour back on Tree

in a way
it looks not very funny tragically
for William Tyndale
little devils of concocters
of inferiority complex of unholy ones
playing smart asses
of 'new age'
worthless 'intellectuals'
preparing the gimmicks of antichrist
for their show... successfully... so far