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e are told that by Cromwell's third Parliament, which sat
send fail Order was made, that it be referred to a Committee to
theuld°,riand advise with Dr. Walton and others, and such as they
'4ibl 'lt, to consider of the translation and impressions of the
A', and offer their opinions thereon," p. 355.
li'estae„,,Plete History of the several Translations of the Bible, and
478g."'•n, by John Lewis, A. M., Minister of Margate, in Kept,
(ltliry • Thus do we exhibit before the face of the country that in-
syst4 ,rito the vital matter of the Christian scheme—the " safest
ter f.,(2r our Life ; the sweetest for our Death ; an.d the suimest
lury; itesurrection ; was agitated three times during half a. con-
°, the I" we have now to record it, that it has not been agitated
ciaLli authorities of the country—during a century and a half !" The
e "ring—he for whom,
.30 feels the anguish of our heart and eyes,
Ile, When all of goilius which can perish dies"

" Who never even in a dull house couldst tame
"tic_, To unleavened prose his own poetic flame"
People A Government without foresight is for the good of the
111)04 tjthn live under it—no Government at all." What a panegyric
da " two Estates"—the subsequent and Government of our
the
the,
collective assemblios" whose conents are said be
theirl'neiPal persons of distinction of the county, whence weto ask
6rePretension to the proud and distinguishing appellation of
to th Itc, Councils of the Nation," when a matter of bounden duty
th:f ea,oevereign and institutions of the country, and above all these
tillne tmost importance to the interests o
" beat aught them by the press and people f
,rminkind that this
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'l3 C The Bible.--We have been so
ORRESPONDINTE.- .
oilsi"LlY exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to. the dis-
abzion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question. of the
oarimPertance to the interests of mankind, that we feel it to be
-.ety to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore, shall be at-
,hti,",ted 10 in turn, as we have reason to believe that the Heads of
e Church have already directed their attention to the contro-
er,:iy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1818.
a Mr. Bellamy, in a very conclusive performance, the Anti-
dses not attempt to parry the weapon, so much as to disarm
,',e hand that wields it ; for he does not explain away the objections
VA have been advanced by the Deist, but he labours rather to ex-
,'N.te them, and to show that they have no other root but miscon-
;Ztion or mistake. Should this author's emendations turn out
4.oct, they should be adopted, as no time and no authority cancon-
hi ate error. Mr. Bellamy has met with patronage in the very
klirgte:t quarter-_a patronage liberal in every sense of the word ;
„ „honourable to the patron as the author."
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cools alterations, I admit, are extremely numerous, important,
kith° /.I'equential, but they are supported. by a mass of erudition,
stt„,,,r,Y, and argument, that does indeed demand our most serious
bariii"°ll, and many, in with myself, willlament that they
e drank more freely at the stream, than at the fountain."
ram e hail the march of intellect, because we know—that a
pure% that is cultivated, is the best support of a worship that is
at,atil It is for those who thrive by the darkness to hurl their
NI blink! against the diffusion of light ; but wisdom like a pure
th "llat conductor, can render harmless the brutum fulmen'
vtican."— Lam Colton.
delle,.":l,rely the elevated 'atronage which this New Translation has
eiN--uly obtained, shouldp operate as a general example and in-
' 4144,1. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged errors,
be
its% to posterity polluted with all those errors; or shall it
itt Gpttted to the latest generations of mankind, with as much of
14d11, al purity as it is possible for human sagacity, knowledge,
"gence to elucidate and confirm."—The Sun, Monday, INo:
Nh.ef,„.23,1, 1818. The Sun, September 30th, October 7th, and
The Guide, March 18th, and 25th, 1838.
4,tticiiblished in 1818 and 1519. Parts I and 2, price 245. each,
as ed by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
c,e,pnt.
l'ool` he New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the three
s of the Pentateuch Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and recon-
''.r,g the numerous discre,pancies in Jerome's and the European
containing from Numbers to Deuterononly.
4, iatt 4th in 1825, containing from Joshua, c. 1. to 1 `Samuel,
l'a;V.
5.
24ki t sth in 1831, containing from 1 Samuel, c. 13. v.•
6. to
IV) c, 17. v. 11.

Pictorial Bible.—Judges e. xv. v. 4.—" And Samson wont and
caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail
to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midst between two tails."
New Translation.—The word Shougnaalim, which is rendered
Foxes, comes from the roorshagnal, which means the Hollow of
the Hand. From which it appears, that the word Shougnaalim
means handfuls, or armfuls, of anything to which it is applied;
and, i❑ this passage, it is applied to the sheaves of cern evidently ;
that he took Three Hundred Handfuls, or Armfuls, of the Sheaves
of Corn, and Turned them Tail to Tail, and put Fire-brands in the
midst between the Tails."—Extracts, see Galway Independent,
April 28, 1837.
Joshua, c. x. v. 13.—" Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and
the moon in the valley of Ajalon."
Hebrew.—" When Joshua commanded before the sight of Israel,
the sun setting on Gibeon, and the moon was in the valley of
Ajalon."
See Classical Journal, No. 60 ; also Liverpool Advertiser, Dur-
ham Chronicle, and Norwich Mercury, 1835.
Note.—" One thing is most singular in the erder of the Divine
Providence respecting the idolaters of Canaan. While their lights
wave burning in their temples as symbols of the Sunlight and
Moonlight, and while the worship of the light of the two orbs, the
sun and moon, was celebrating, that pagan abomination was totally
destroyed."
Pictorial Bible, according to the authorised Text. 1 Kings, c.
xvii. v. 4.—" Thus it shall be, thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the
brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew.—New Translation, Part V. Thus it shall be, thou
(Elijah) shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the Ara-
bians to supply thee there."
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread and flesh in
the morning," &c.
Job, c. i. v. 6.—The Bishop of London begins his note by ob-
serving, " This is a bold variation from the generally admitted sense
of the Hebrew paraphrase ; but I am convinced after the most
mature consideration, that the conception of the passage is ne less
just, than it is original. It certainly is defensible upon the strongest
ground."
" It is a bold variation, and I am (new translator) constrained to
observe, that the conception of the passage is neither Just, nor Ori-
ginal, and that it is not Defensible."
Job xxxix. 19.—" Hut thou given the horse strength ? Hast
thou clothed his neck with thunder ?" In this verse we have one
of the finest similies I have ever met with in any author, ancient
or modern ; the greatest beauties in Homer, Virgil, or Milton, are
as far below it as to propriety of application, or elegance of expression,
as the Supreme Speaker is above the person addressed. The
Bishop of London is willing to admit that Rangmaah means " the
thunder," but be says, " is not this one of those noble and sublime
expressions, of which one dares not question the meaning ? other-
wise, it may be asked, hew can a can a neck be clothed with thun-
der ?" That the passage is " noble and sublime" must be allowed ;
but we cannot suppose that the Sacred Scriptures, which God has
given for a rule of life, are given in such " noble and sublime" lan-
guage, that we are not to question, or endeavour to understand
their meaning ; what idea can we form of the " noble and sublime,"
if its meaning be unintelligible ? That which cannot be understood
can neither be noble nor sublime. Now, as the lightning precedes,
and by its swiftness and power is the cause of the thunder, which it
necessarily draws with it, so the swiftness and power of the horse
is in this striking metaphor compared to the lightning, for the
swiftness and power with which he rushes into the battle, described
in this chapter, dragging after him the iron war-chariots, with
which they fought in those days, the noise of which is in this pas-
sage compared to the thunder."—P. 212.—The Classical Journal,
No. 5.

Jerome's Version.-2 Kings, e. v., T. 18.—" In this thing the
Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master cometh into the
house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hands,
and I do bow myself in the house of Rimmon ; when I bow down
myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this

Hebrew.— " Since I myself, worshipped
. . .
in the house of Rimmen, will Jehovah, I pray thee, pardon thy ser-
vant in this thing."
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" The Right Rey. the Bishop of St. David's having circulated
' Reasons why a New Translation of the Bible should not be pub-
lished,' &c. I wish to communicate to the public, through the me-
dium of your Journal, a few observations in reply." " Bit, he
(Naaman) entreats (says his Lordship), that his apparent idolatry in
his attendance on his master in the temple of Rimmon might be
pardoned. And how does he propose to reconcile his wish to per-
form apparent idolatry, with his being afraid even of the appearance
of it in his future attendance on his master. But in truth, there is
not one word in the original to countenance that sense.

" It is truth only which can make a nation invulnerable, and
raise it to the highest degree of excellence—the blaze of divine
truth, which is contained in the real Ark of God, the hallowed
oracles, which break forth over the dark mountains of error, bi-
gotry and superstition,--and men will be enabled to drink the
pure waters as they flow from the fountain of eternal truth."—
P. 226. The Classical Journal, No. 26.
2 Kings, c v., v. 18.—Read the words in the preter-tense : when
my master went into the house of Rimmon ; the sense appears to
be a pardon craved for sin past, not afterwards to be committed.—
Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites used by the Ancient Hebrews. De-
dicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of the University of
Oxford. By Thomas Godwin, 8.D., 1634.
A Letter to Mr. Bellamy, by Samuel Lee, M. A., of Queen's
College, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge,
1821.

" Your Anti-Deist, a work perfectly of a piece with the New
Translation." . • • " I give it conscientiously, I
have not been able to discover anything like merit in your transla-
tion." Advertisement—" The author takes this opportunity of
making his grateful acknowledgments to the Syndics of the Univer-
sity Press, for their liberality in taking upon themselves the expense
of printing these sheets."—Extracts.
Mr. Bellamy's Reply to S. Leo, M. A., Professor of Arabie in
the University of Cambridge, 1821.
" You say, The only writers, who. n this day have rejected these
helps (the sister dialects, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic) towards as-
certaining the meaning of the Hebrew Text, are the anther of th,
Remarks' (the Regius Profosior of Oriental Languages at Ox-
ford) above mentioned, and myself.' It is certainly much to the
credit of the author of the ' Remarks' that he rejects those lame
the sister dialects." • • • •
" But you have entirely passed over the vast destruction of the