What is the original provenance of Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people" and why is Wikipedia so confused?
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This question is answered in the American Philosophical Society article which you refer to. A man named Ward Hill Lamon made a false citation to a nonexistent edition of Wycliffe's Bible in 1895. Another man, Hall Caine, claimed that he found the citation in an actual Bible, but no one else has ever been able to locate it.
It seems that many people have repeated the false claim from 1895 without checking it, including dictionaries of quotations, etc. But the updated narrative on the Gettysburg Address Wikipedia page is the correct one.
There is a more recent exploration of the phrase in an academic journal. A Christian blogger also recently affirmed that the phrase has never been seen in a Wycliffe Bible edition.
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