Basil and Miscitations

An Orthodox Christian who reads here let TurretinFan know about James White’s miscitation of Basil I reported on here. Apparently Turretinfan reported the miscitation to Dr White, but without telling him his source, because on the 2009/03/06 Dividing Line, Dr White mentions the miscitation he got from Turretinfan and goes into a long rant about Roman forged documents. This of course is water off a duck’s back to me, not being Roman Catholic. However White continues to imply that Basil is some kind of sola-scripturaist, and Roman Catholics have misrepresented him. I showed quite clearly the aforementioned article that is not the case.

I think it’s quite interesting that it took 5 years for anybody to bring up the fact of this miscitation, and it took an Orthodox Christian to do it. With White’s wide circle of devoted fans, don’t you think one protestant would have looked up the citations to see what the context of them is, and reported back that the citation is wrong?

It seems fair to say that White’s band of followers survive on quote books, rather than testing what he says from the source documents. Apparently few of them read the Church Fathers either. Hey, I used to be there. But then I started checking up on him. Now I’m not protestant any more.

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