The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

Authorised Explanation of the Bible.

The following important announcement appears
in the Guardian :
We are peppy to see that the objections brought against
certain portions of the Bible are about to be met by leading
theologians of the Church of England in a very practical
way. It a false and unfair system of interpretation has
been applied to the text of Scripture, the best way of con.
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futing it is to apply a true and legitimate one. The honour
of originating the plan is due to the Speaker of the House
of Commons, who consulted several of the bishops on the
subject, and the Archbishop of York, at his instance, under-
took to organise a plan for producing a commentary which
should " put the reader in full possession of whatever infor-
mation may be requisite to enable him to understand the
Word of God, and supply him with satisfactory answers to
objections resting upon misrepresentation of its contents."
The plan has received the sanction of the Primate. A com-
mittee consisting of the Archbishop of York, the Bishops
of London, Lichfield, Llandaff, Gloucester and Bristol,
Lord Lyttelton, the Speaker, Mr Walpole, Drs. Jacobson
and Jeremie, takes the general supervision of the work.
The Rev. F. C. Cook, preacher at Lincoln's-inn, will be the
general editor,and will advise with the Archbishop of York
and the Regius Professors of Divinity at Oxford and Cam-
bridge upon any questions which may arise. The work
will be divided into eight sections, the first of which will
consist of the. Pentateuch, a difficult subject, and will be
edited by Professor Harold Browne,the Revs. R. C. Pascoe,
T. F. Thrupp, T. E. Espin, and W. Dewhurst, contribut-
ing. The historical books [ls the Pentateuch, then, not
"historical ?"3 will be consigned to the Rev. G. Rawlin-
son, editor, and the Revs. T. E. Espin and Lord Arthur
Hervey, contributors. The Rev. F. Cook will edit, and
the Revs. E. H. Plumptre, W. T. Bullock, and T. Kings-
bury will annotate, the poetical books, The four Great
Prophets will be undertaken by Dr. M'Caul as editor, and
the Revs. R. Payne Smith and H. Rose as contributors.
The Bishop of St. David's and the Rev, R. Gandell will edit
the 12 Minor Prophets, and the Revs. E. Huxtable, W.
and F. Meyrick will contribute. The Gospels and
DkeAeratsWill form the sixth section; the first three Gospels
will be edited by Professor Mansel, the Gospel of St. John
by the Dean of Canterbury, and the Acts by Dr. Jacobson.
The editorship of St. Paul's Epistles is appropriately
assigned to Bishop Ellicott and Dr. Jeremie, with Dr. Gif-
ford, Professor T. Evans, Rev. J. Waite, and Professor J.
Lightfoot as contributors, To the Archbishop elect of
Dublin and the Master of Balliol is assigned the rest of
the sacred canon, This really promises to be a work second
only in importance to the LXX., or the English version
made by order of King James. Perhaps it will be quoted
as " the XXX." The names of the editors and contribu-
tors, while they ensure orthodoxy, give promise that the
comment thus put forth almost with the sanction of the
Church of England as a body will not be the utterance of
any narrow school or section of it.

A HOME INTERIOR.—From the charming new
Novel of " Janet's Home," published by Alacmillan.
—My dear mother, not having such keen eyes as we had,
nor the heart to commit such an extravagance as that of
burning more than two candles, was obliged to restrict her
employments to winding skeins of Bilk or cotton, rolling
tape into balls, or unravelling the string and smoothineen
g
out, for future use, the paper in which parcels had b
packed. How I wondered at the patience which sustained
her over these tasks evening after evening. I used to sit
just opposite my father, and the work with which I was
supposed to be occupying myself used to fall on my lap
many times and stay there, so interested used I to bo in
watching him, I fancied I could trace the progress of what
he was reading in his face. He sat very upright, his head
slightly bent towards his book; the strong light, ad
the
lamp fell on his high, broad forehead, from which the dark
hair was much worn; his eyebrows were usually slightly
knit; the lips pressed in; the rest of the features and figure
in perfect repose, while the restless eyes glanced rapidly t.
and fro on the page with a sort of fierce eagerness in them,
as if they would tear the heart out of the book. Sometimes,
—once, perhaps, in an evening, or not so often--the lips
relaxed their pressure, and a slight smile curved their edges,
the brows unkuit, the eyes rested on:ill:Ilion,
them
were raised
that my
mthye from the book, and I knew by the li
father had read something that had pleased lefialm.
midst of dry details he had come upon the. record of some
noble word or deed that thrilled to his heart. Sometimes I
have seen him moved so far as to bet up from his seat and
whiaelkhowadithetreaott,: his dsomuenudtihngwostrekpin%up and down the room,
these seasons, I knew that well en He
enough, wla shna odt
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of the ages of distance that separated his spirit from us and
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for courage to go up to him,
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be allowed to admire what
, loved,