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  • Why Be Guided by God’s Spirit?
    The Watchtower—2011 | December 15
    • It is noteworthy, however, that throughout The Webster Bible, an amended King James Version originally published in 1833, American lexicographer Noah Webster replaced “Holy Ghost” with “Holy Spirit.” Webster did so because he knew that in the Scriptures this expression did not mean “an apparition.”a

  • Why Be Guided by God’s Spirit?
    The Watchtower—2011 | December 15
    • a In the preface of his Bible, Webster wrote: “Whenever words are understood in a sense different from that which they had when introduced, and different from that of the original languages, they do not present to the reader the Word of God.”

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