Dispensations — and the Scofield Bible that carried them everywhere.
C. I. Scofield put Darby's scheme into the notes and cross-references of a reference Bible published by Oxford University Press in 1909. Millions of American Protestants who had never heard of Darby learned his system as though it were part of the text.
The Scofield Reference Bible is the most consequential publishing project the Brethren produced, and it did not carry their name. Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, an American lawyer and Congregational minister who had absorbed Darby's system through the Niagara conferences, put dispensational headings, dates, cross-references and interpretive notes on the page of the Authorised Version, and Oxford University Press published it in 1909 with a revision in 1917. Millions of readers learned to read Scripture through the notes without distinguishing them from the text. The habit that goes with it — reading current events as prophetic fulfilment, with Israel at the centre — passed from Brethren halls in Britain and Ireland into American fundamentalism, and from there into a politics that Darby, who thought all human government was under judgement and refused to vote, would have found unrecognisable.
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