Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots (Modern English Version)

There's great value in new editions of classic books which are genuine """"updates"""" - just modernising punctuation, grammar and wording without changing the original author's meaning and content. But this book is a complete disappointment. Firstly, it completely omits 11 of the original 21 chapters!\\r\\n\\r\\nSecondly, the anonymous reviser(s) have taken great liberties in altering Ryle's meaning and message. For example, they change Ryle's term """"professing Christians"""" to """"Christians"""" (e. g. twice in the first two paragraphs of chapter 9). Ryle was an ardent evangelical who insisted on the difference between a """"professing Christian"""" and a real one, and his book """"Holiness"""" was evangelistic in nature as well as teaching for those truly saved. It's tragic that Ryle's would-be revisers can't even understand what they are trying to revise! \\r\\n\\r\\nTheir replacement of most of the Bible quotations with quotes from the 2011 NIV is also out of place and unnecessary, when far more accurate versions (NKJV, ESV) are widely used and more equivalent as updates to Ryle's KJV passages. For those who must have a shortened update,""""Aspects of Holiness"""" (also avail from Koorong) is a much better representation of Ryle's message. But the original is still in print, and was a fantastic blessing in my life! \\r\\n