The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-22 00:00:00

EW TRANSLATION of the BIBLE.
" All the King's—(Henry the Eighth's)—proceedings
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
Pope over all Christendom."
" Grafton, the printer, printed 1,500 at his own charge,
which amounted to 5001. !' —History of England, by llapin,
p. 819.
" lie, who by a diligent and faithful examination of the ori-
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ginal records, diminishes from the system one article which con-
tradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning o
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
private ends, and frequently little better than a selfish struggle
for power.
4' 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 longer residence in his diocese than is usually prac-
tised, that 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 infaVible 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 Protestants 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 way the intentions of founders, as
the world outgrows them. Our Universities are, in a great
measure, become cisterns to hold, not conduits, to disperse,
knowledge.
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sources of knowledge
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not budge, whatever was known when they were endowed, they
are still in profound and lofty ignorance of."—Hrizlitt's Table
Talk: also, the Examiner, Jan. 2
" The heads of houses at Oxford, are not. ot sa obtuse of mind
as not to see that if the privileges andr
possessions,and imperceptibly accumulated by theme gradually
brought ;.into
collision and contest with the awakened perceptionwer
ing strength of mind of the community at lage,treird tetreeraess;
must be decily invo ve,cl in the struggle. . ... • Had
they no Icars tl.at ;f we, brortBlit within three hours'

journey from London, that instead of the reverential few who
now come within their halls, 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 celibacy 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 took, and long commentaries have
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.

To CORRESPONDENTS.—" 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
is 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."—
The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem-
ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837. The Guide, March
18th, and 25th, 1838. The 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 Pentateueh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and
reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the
European versions."
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
Part 4th in 1825, containing from Joshua, c. 1. to 1 Samuel,
c. 13. v. 5.
Part sth in 1831, containing from 1 Samuel, c. 13. v. 6. to
2d Kings, c. 17. v. 11.
Part 6th in 1834, containing from 2d Kings, c. 17. v. 12 to
Job, c. 18. v. 21. _ _

Part 7th in 1835, 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
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
the gross errors the Reviewer has made in his Remarks on the
New Translation of the Bible.
" I now proceed to examine the passage which the Reviewer
has adduced to prove how grossly I have erred in translating
the word gnaaroumin, prudent, instead of naked ; which is in
Job, c. 22. v. 6. And stripped• the naked of their clothing.
This is, perhaps, one of the passages which he deems ' elegant,'
simple,' and 'dignified.' It is simple' enough, surely ; and
such simple passages abounding in the common version have in
all ages excited the wonder of intelligent men. ' Stripped the
naked of their clothing !' Iu 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 524
years, price ls.
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.—Hebrew.—And 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 on the Origin of several Empires,
States, and Cities. By the Right Hon. Sir W. Drummond.—
The Literary Gazette, May 28, 1825.
" The tower of Babel whose top was to reach to heaven,'
and the confusion of tongues ;' .the sacrifice of Isaac an,d
Jeptha's daughter; the true age of Christ at the crucifixion.'
—Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors.
The works of Sir Thomas Brown, Knight, M.D., of Nor-
wich, 1686.
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed."
"It is a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, to
infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil
right must have originated in a regular grant from the original
owner, although no express evidence can be produced of
existence of such conveyance." On Tithes.—Quarterly Re-
view, No. 53.
New Trans!ation :—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." Note—Oakelos, the most eminent of
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the
Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred
Volume into Chaldee at that period when the Hebrew was a
national language, he thus translates the clause—gnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as
the Hebrew. The Septuagint 6E7-Ini, ccir6oE)taT'W GrEt (both
Alexandrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned tielden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on
tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had
a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number
of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce
of the land, but of the increase of the seed; as it is truly said
in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have
been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross
produce ; otherwise it could not have been said it was the " in-
crease of the seed."
" The Council of Calcuith, or Calchite, held in 785, or, ac-
cording to others, in 787, on account of erecting Lichfield into
an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been
c mvened just before in Northumberland. Gregory and
Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow-
ledged, in their letter to the Pope, that they were the first that
had been sent into England with that character. The follow-
ing arc some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland,
ratified by the Council of Calcuith:—' Bth. The ancient
privileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The '
lith urges the payment of Tithes from the authority of the Law
of Moses.' "
" Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which,
though mentioned elsewhere, it will not be amiss to repeat a
little more largely of in this place; I mean the grant of Tithes.
The Charter runs thu :
" I, Ethelwulph, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the
health of my soul. and good of my people, taken the prudent
resolution of granting the tenth part of all the lands throughout
my whole kingdom to the Church and Ministers of Religion,
&e. &c.—Dated the Palace at. Wilton, in the year 854, Indic-
tion the second, at the Feast of 'Easter."
The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in-
duced several learned men to believe it spurious. But without
entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob-
serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England
claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual
possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of
the Council of Calcuith, held in 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Char-
ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seems at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth part
of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced inter-
pretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—Page
111, Rapin's History of England.
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Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quartern loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the
hungry—and its denunciations are upon those who are unmind-
ful o "the child of misery baptised in tears."
Ethelvvulph's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, 3/. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translation.—A tenth of a tenth taken on
produce, 265. per cent.
Hebrew.—A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6-.
per cent.
We cull from the "blaze of eloquence"- of immortal Milton
the epitaph for the patron of this work—" Revolutions of ages
do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse."
" In the House of Lords, the debate being on the state of
Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, The Noble Lord had in-
sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right.
He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be-
lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament."—( Hear, hear.)—See Morning
Herald, June 20, 1823.
There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10
per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,000/. netted him 500/. per annum, paid to the
State 50/., under the operation of the tithe composition, an out-
lay of 500/. subjects the cultivator to the same 50/. ; this, in-
deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs ;" but thank God, we seem to
outlive this.
Mr. Hodges wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, whether it was the intention of
her Majesty's Government to introduce in that House, or the
other House of Parliament, a Bill to amend and explain the
Tithe Commutation Act ?
Lord J. Russell was understood to say that it was the inten-
tion of Government to introduce a Bill for that purpose.—The
Sun, June 14, 1839.
It being to the Editors of the Sun and the Examiner must
be conceded the onslaught on behalf of majesty and mind, here
we must observe, we consider we are fully warranted to make
our appeal to them to reassume their post of henour--." do
this deed of worth"—as we have maintained the field " through
good report, and through evil report"—our impulse of action
being to render our country " like a Greek ship, where every
man has his stake in her," and that "peace may have her vic-
tories no less renowned than war."
Ist Samuel, c. v., Authorized Version. " Saul abode in Gi-
beali;under a tree in Ramah."
New Translation—" Now Saul abode by Gibeah, in the grove
by Ramah."—Classical Journal, p. 203, No. 5 for April, 1811.
Twenty-eight years since this emendation was submitted to
notice. There has been uncommon, apathy, or ignorance in
our councils.
A letter to Mr. Bellamy, by Samuel Lee, M.A. of Queen's
College, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cam-
bridge' 1821.
Your Anti-Deist, a work perfectly of a piece with the
New Translation." . " I give it oonscien-
tiously, I have not been able to discover any thing like
merit in your translation." Advertisement—" The author
takes this opportunity of making his grateful acknowledge-
ments to the Syndics of the University Press, for their libe-
rality in taking upon themselves the expense of printing these
sheets."--Extracts.
Mr. Bellamy's Reply to S. Lee, M.A., Professor of Arabic
in the University of Cambridge, 1821.
" You say, The only writers, who in this day have rejected
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