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N' TRANSLATION :of the BIBLE
" All the King's—(Henry the Eighth's)—proeeeding;
convincing the Pope that he was to expect no change in him
he published at length the Bull of Excommunication, drawn•
and signed in 1535. As soon as Henry heard of the Bull being
published, he required the Bishops and Abbots to swear again
to renounce the Papal authority: At the same time, the new
translation of the Bible being presented to him, he ordered
1,500 copies to be printed, being satisfied that nothing would
be found there to support the exhorbitant power assumed by the
4 •
Pope over all Christendom.
" Grafton, the printer, p-inted 1,500 at his own charge,
which amounted to 5001. !"—History of England, by 'lapin,
p. 819.
" He, who by a diligent and faithful examination of the ori-
ginal records, diminishes from the system one article which con-
tradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning of
mankind, does more towards recommending the belief, and, with
the belief, the influence of Christianity to the understandings
and consciences of serious inquirers, and through them to uni-
versal reception and authority, than can be effected by a thou-
sand contenders for creeds and ordinances of human establish-
ment."—Paley.
" Patriotism is a scandalous game, played by public men for
nrivate ends, and frequently little better than a selfish struggle
for power.
'‘‘ He must be a narrow-minded, short-sighted statesman,
who does not see and acknowledge that National Morality, pro-
ceeding from religious principle, is essential to the peace,
the prosperity, the permanency of this and every Christian
country.
" No man upon earth, I trust, can have more enlarged sen-
timents of toleration than I have, but the Church of 'Rome is a
persecuting Church, and it is our interest.:and duty, on every
principle of religion and common sense, to guard ourselves
against her machinations."
" Give every Bishop income enough; not for display -of
worldly pomp and fashionable luxury, but to enable him to
maintain works of charity, and to make a decent provision for:
his family • but, having done these things for him, take from him
all hopes.of a translation by equalizing the bishoprics. Oblige
him to a hinger residence in his diocese than is usually prac-
tised, tlaat he may do the proper work of a Bishop ; that he
may direct and inspect the flock of Chri,t, ; that by his exhor-
tations he may confirm the unstable, by his admonitions reclaim
the reprobate, and by the purity of his life render religion
amiable and interesting to all. '
We do not allow that there are-any infarible interpreters of
the Bible, on the contrary,we maintain, that Fathers, Churches,
and Councils, have erred in their interpretation of this book, in
their decision concerning particular points of faith. This we
must as Piotestants maintain, or we cannot justify our having
emancipated ourselves from the bondage of the Church of
Rome."—P. 117, Bishop Watson's Life.
,--;" University Education." The great resorts and seats of
learning often outlive in this war •ke • entions of founders, as
the world outgrows them. Our n ersities are, in a great
measure, become cisterns to ho: not conduits, to disperse,
knowledge. The age has the start of them, that is, other
sources of knowledge have been opened since their' formation, to
which the world have had access.and have drank plentifully at
these living fountains, from which they are debarred by the
tenor of their Charter, and as a matter of dignity and privilege.
All that has been invented or thought in the last two hundred
are above
it, they stand they take no cognizance
upon
gnizanctehe en of, or
land-marks,littleas
possible,and will
they
e
not budge, whatever was known when they were endowed, they
are still in profound and lofty ignorance of."—Hazlitt's Table
Talk: also, the Examiner, Jan. 20, 1829.
" The heads of houses at Oxford, are not obtuse of mind
as not to see that if the privileges and possessions, gradually
collisionbreen
dga contestetnehdilyf ir Lvo mindi
vw,o, idft ht
ihnt he ethaew
satkreunge awakened
communitye at l perceptionarg their and increas-
inginteres t
and imperceptibly accumulated by them, were brought ;into
muslt
they no fears that if Oxford were brought within three hours'
journey from London, that instead'of the reverential few who
now come within their balls, like pilgrims, to worship and ad-
mire, that the busy eye of inquiry might be induced to ask how
came it that when monasteries were suppressed, that such esta-
blishments were maintained as those of Oxford and Cambridge,
with monastic discipline and rites, where cel bacy was enforced
by statutes, amid other remnants of monkery, the relics of .
. . . . Eremites and friars, white, black, and gray, with
all their trumpery !"—Sunday Times No. 820.
"We observe in a pamphlet, Anti-Diest,' published by
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii, v.. 22, is a gross mistransla-
tion. He notices a number of other errors in the translation
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis-
translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo-
logians as any in the whole kook, and long commentaries have
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and
propriety."—The.Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.
To Co KRESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper.to the dis-
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of
the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; or
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity 'as it is possible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."
Mct
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Mptemarch
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beg 30th, Oobeyr 7th, and 28th, 1837.8 The Guide,
18th, and 25th, 1838. Ihe Sun, December 27, 1838, Feb. 5,

1839.
" Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245.
each: dedicated by permission to his Royal. Highness the Prince
of Wales, as Regent.
" The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the
three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and
reconciling the numerous - dtscrepancits in Jerome's and the
European versions."
Part ad in. I 821 , containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
Part 4th in 1825, containing from Joshua, C. 1. to 1 Samuel,
c. 13. v. 5.
Part sth in 1431. containing from 1 Samuel, c. 13. v. 6. to
2d Kings, C. 17. v. 11.
Part 61 in 1,334, containing from 2d Kings, c. 17. v. 12 to
Job, e. 18. v. 21.
Part 7th in 1833, containing from Job, c. 18. v. 22. to
Psalms, c. 50.
The Anti-Deist, in answer to the publication called the
Deist, containing also a refutation of the erroneous opinions
inf hniaskßedem; awrkhskhonisthien
held forth in the Age of Reason, and in a recent publication,
entitled Researches on Ancient Kingdoms, 1819, price 4s.
First and Second Replies to the Quarterly Review, showing
Passage which the Reviewer
I have erred in translating
New Translation of the Bible.
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Job, c. 22. v. 6. And stripped the naked of their clothing
This is, rerhaps, one of the p_ats sages which he deems ' elegant,'
simpler and . dignified.'
al. is 'simple' enough, surely ; and
prove how
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prudent,ei
grossly
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e instead
such simple passages about) rg in the common version have in
all ages excited the wonde,r of
intelligent men. ' Stripped the
naked of their clothing ! n the name of common sense, if
they were naked. how could they be stripped?"—Extracts. See
Classical Journal, No. 38.
A Refutation of the Erroneous Opinions, promulgated by a
Right Rev. Bishop of London ....See Classical Journal, No. 1.
A Reply to the Right Rev. Bishop of St. David's. See
Classical Journal, No. 26.
The True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, not 33 but 52}
years, price Is. .
Biblical Criticisms in each quarterly part, in the years, 1810,
11, 12, 13, 14. 15, 16, and 17, of the Classical Journals,
by JOHN BELLAMY.
SPECIMENS OF EMENDATIONS, AND TENOR OF
REPLIES.
Genesis, C. 11. v. 4. Jerome's Version.—And they said,
go to,:let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach
Unto heaven.
New Translation.—
they said, come, let us
build a city and tower, with his top Like unto heaven.
"An undertaking as impious as it was foolish, an attempt to
build a tower which should reach to heaven !"
Origines ; or, Remarks nn the Origin of several Empires,
States, and Cities. By the Right Hon. Sir W. Drummond.—
The Literary Gazette;lllay 28, 1825.
,g The tower of Babel whose t6t) was to reach to ' heaven,'
and ' the confusion of tongues;' 'the sacrifice of Isaac and
Jeptha's daughter; the true age of Christ at the crucifixion.' "
—Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors.
The works of Sir Thomas Brawn, Knight, M.D., of Nor-
wich, 1686.