1 J. N. Darby, Collected Writings of J. N. Darby, G. Morrish, London, Vol. 9, pp. 475478.
2 T. W. Carron, Christian Testimony Through the Ages, G. Morrish, London, p. 50.
3 Evangelical Quarterly, James Clark and Co. Ltd., London. Article by Prof. Dr. W. Childs Robinson, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, Vol. 5, pp. 275-282.
4 “In Colossians 1:1517 the Jehovah Witnesses’ translation falsifies what Paul originally wrote, rendering it, ‘He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, because by means of Him all other things were created in the heavens and upon the earth...All other things were made to exist.’ Here the word ‘other’ has been unwarrantably inserted four times. It is not present in the original Greek and was obviously used by the translators in order to make the passage refer to Jesus as being on a par with other created things” (Bruce M. Metzer, “Jehovah’s Witnesses and Jesus Christ,” Theology Today, April 1953, Princeton, New Jersey, p. 76).
5 For a fuller discussion of the fallacious rendering of John 1:1, see Jehovah of the Watchtower by Martin and Klann, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1956, pp. 50-54.
6 Dr. W. Childs Robinson, “Jesus Christ Is Jehovah,” Evangelical Quarterly, Vol. 5, p. 153.
7 J. G. Bellett, The Son of God, The Bible Truth Press, New York, p. 25.
8 See the Greek Septuagint Version, S. Bagster and Sons, Ltd., London, and James Pott and Co., New York, in loco.
9 Robert B. Girdlestone, Old Testament Synonyms, p. 64.
10 Edward Dennett, The Visions of John in Patmos, Being Notes on the Apocalypse, G. Morrish, London, p. 306.
11 We are aware that many later translations have rendered Zechariah 12:10, “And they shall look upon Him whom they have pierced,” but we believe this to be a mistake. On this point we quote from the able expositor, William Kelly.
“There is really no serious doubt that the true reading is the latter (‘to Me’), not the former (‘to Him’)....It was, in fact, originally nothing but a marginal correction, due to the desire partly of eliminating so strong a testimony to the deity or Jehovah title of the Lord Jesus”; et. seq. pp. 422424 (W. Kelly, An Exposition of the Gospel of John, F. E. Race, London, 1898).
Also see the author’s further note on the same point in his Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Minor Prophets, G. Morrish, London, pp. 483-484. Also see Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary on Old and New Testament, in loco.
Printed in U.S.A.
2001
(Original printing: 1963)
“To me it is as clear as the sun at noonday that Christ was the Jehovah of the Old Testament.”
John Nelson Darby1
The publisher strongly urges Christians to meditate on the precious truths contained herein. It is a scriptural answer to the basic error on which the heresy of the so-called Jehovah’s Witnesses is built. The same Arian heterodoxy is inherent in all modernistic teaching which affects the truth of the deity of the Lord Jesus.