One of the grossest blunders to be found in any translation of the Bible is in the rendering of "the faith," as it is in the original, just simply "faith." These terms are no more alike than black is white. "The faith" is "the gospel of Christ" (Rom 1:16; 10:16) "But they had heard only, that he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed," (Gal 1:23); "and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith" (Acts 6:7); "and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3); "looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of the faith" (not our faith) Heb 12:2; "knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ" (Gal 2:16); "Even the righteousness of God, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ (not "faith," but the faith) Rom 3:22; "But before the faith came (not "faith," but the faith), we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed" (Gal 3:28); "But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster," v.25; "For ye are all the children of God in Christ Jesus by the faith" (Yes, it is the faith); "For as many as were baptized into Christ, did put on Christ."

There are many other passages in the original that require, not "faith" in the translation but the faith. However, therc is one more to which I call attention, one that is being made the ground of a base falsehood. It is found in Acts 15:9, and runs thus in some version: "And put no difference between us and them purifying their hearts by faith;" another says: "Cleansing their hearts by faith," referring to Jews and Gentiles.

But the original says by the faith; and this is the gospel of Christ, not simply one feature of it, as faith, or repentance, or baptism, as Paul has just shown in saying, "For as many as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ," Gal 3:27. The faith requires it all as when "A great company of priests became obedient to the faith," Acts 6:7.