John 16:8-11 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:… Angelo Marie, a Jesuit librarian at the Vatican, made the discovery, many years ago, that some of the ancient MSS. had more than one layer of writing upon them. By certain chemical experiments, he succeeded in making legible the ancient writing. Archbishop Whately has suggested the theory, now generally admitted, that this was done on account of the expensiveness or scarcity of parchment in the middle ages. De Quincy, in his "Confessions," has given us a chapter on the subject, applying it to signify different layers of thought and emotion that have at different times passed upon the heart, and become apparently covered over completely with some other. So it is with the hardened sinner. How many a layer of conviction after conviction and partial reformations has he known, yet still how thick a case covers his hardened heart! Parallel Verses KJV: And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:WEB: When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; |
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