Marx, puts forward the theory that Cicero and the Auctor have not produced original works, but have merely given the substance of two r xvai (both emanating from the Rhodian school); that neither used the 'r xvat directly, but reproduced the revised version of the rhetoricians whose school they attended, the introductions alone being their own work; that the lectures on which the Ciceronian treatise was based were delivered before the lectures attended by the Auctor.
The contents of the prophecy fall into a series of clearly marked sections, as in the paragraph division of the Revised Version.
But the Revised Version takes the word sheth as a common noun, "tumult," and others interpret it as "pride"; cf.
Thus the Revised Version was the achievement of English-speaking Christendom as a whole; only the Roman Catholic Church, of the great English-speaking denominations, refused to take part in the undertaking.
But it is scarcely necessary to say that the Revised Version is not the work of one or two scholars.