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NEW TRANSLATION OF THE
BIBLE.
Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir B.
Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to Per
Majesty, praying that, before recommending this House to
grant any further sums of public money towards Church Ex-
tensisn, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into
consideration the rich and valuable endowments which are al-
ready possessed by the Established Church of England and
Wales, as well as the large sums of public money which have
been granted for Church Extension since the year 1809.
" That her Majesty will be graciously pleased to consider
that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England.
the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, are
amply sufficient to provide religious worship and instruction
for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the
Established Church of this kingdom."—The Sun, No. 14,833,
Friday, May 22. 1840.
" We observe in a pamphlet, ' Anti-Deist,' 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 dii ect opposition to
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo-
logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have
been written upou them, expressly to show their beauty and
prciprietv."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.
To CORRESPONDENTS.-" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in openinr, 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."--LThe Sun, London, Saturday, Dec.
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,
witkas 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.
" Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245.
each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prinie
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 discrepancies in Jerome's and the
European versions,
Part 3d in 1921, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
By John Bellamy.

SPECIMEN OF EMENDATION.
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed:"
" kit a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, o
infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil
right must have originated in a regular grant horn the original
owner, although no express evidence can be produeed of ex-
istence of such cepTanceZ -Tithes.—Quart-rly Review;
WO.
New Translation:—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." Note—Onkelos, 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 the period when tile Hebrew was a
national language, thus translates the clause—Gnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as the
Hebrew. The Septuagint aEsca-roy coraoExas~cocrEt (both
Alexandrine and Vatican) "a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned Selden, 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."
1. When the harvest had been ended, and all gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great themma otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floor., of which it bath beene
spoken in chapter on first fruits; which, though it were one
of ten, in respect of that portion which the Levites received,
yet it was but one of a hundred in respect ol the husbandman's
stocke, who payed the Levites; the Levites payed a tenth por-
tion unto the Priests ; this they termed Magnasher min-ham-
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Neh. x. 3e. The Pharisees
would pay a tenth, Mat. xxiii. 23 ; and hence it is that they
boasted, They gave tithes of all that they possessed, Luke
xviii. 12."—Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the ancient
Hebrews. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of
the University of Oxford. By Thomas Godwyn, B. D. 1634.
" The Council of Calcuith, or Calchtte, 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
con"ened 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 wilb that character. The follow-
ing are 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
17th 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 b amiss to repeat a
little more largely of in this place; I mean the grant of Tithes.
1 he Charter runs thus :
" 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,
&c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 654, Indic-
tion the seeond, 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 Chea-
ter, therefore,lis not to be consideredla 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
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—
Page 111, Rapin's History of England.
" The plan which I have to unfold may at first appear start-
ling, . . . . to introduce within the Christian Church.
It may appear to encroach by those who have strenuously ad-
vocated the sacredness of the clergy's inoome, and entered
their decided protest against any reform being necessary, as re-
lating to ecclesiastical affairs."—Espilon Theta.
"The King, Henry the Fourth. representing to the Parlia-
ment his great want or an extraordinary aid, the Commons
went in a body and addressed him, That without burdening
his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenue
of the clergy.' The Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent with the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were
forced to find other means to supply the King's occasions ; the
clergy granted a tenth and a-half. —Page 495.
" The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
(Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the King in order to save the rest."—Page 509;
Rapin's History of England. (1. )—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628,
14,662.
" No mention, Bishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au-
thentic book in the world). Daring all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and the Church appear to have been sup-
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious."—See
Selden on Tithes, and Barb. Rem. 169.
" Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the
tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
lane, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants."-2 Black. Corn. '2 I.
From the above readings the following scale is deducible :
Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
, pence in every shilling quarte-n loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, hut that our hallowed Faith enjoins us "To feed the
hungry"—and its denunciations are upon those who are unmind-
ful of " the child of misery baptised in tears."
Ethelwulph's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, 31. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translatior —A tenth of a tenth taken on
produce, 265. per cent.
Hebrew —A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6s.
per cent —An Insight to Forced Interpretation."
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, he state of