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NEW TRANSLATION OF THE
BIBLE.
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" Whe kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's
image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself,
kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man
lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious
life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on
purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a
life, but revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a
rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the
worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we
raise against the living labours of public men, how we blight
that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ;
since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, some-
times a martyrdom ; and if it extend to the whole impression,
a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends net in the
slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and
fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immor-
tality rather than a life."—Areopagitica, Milton.
To CORRESTONDENTS.—" 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 utmost 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 contreversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. b,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly ebtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledges
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors ;er
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.
"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 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.
" Published in 11118 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 discrepancies in Jerome's and the
European versions.':
Part 3(1 in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
Part 4th in 1825, oontaining from Joshua, c. 1. to 1 Samuel,

.3. 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, e. 17. v. 12 to
Job, c. 18. v. 21.
Part 7th in 1835, containing from Job, a. Is. 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 ex 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 !' In the name ef 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,
for March, 1810.
A Reply to the Right Rev. Bishop ef St. David's. See
Classical Journal, No. 26, for June, 1816.
The True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, net :13 but 52i
Tears, 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.

Authorized Version and Douay Bible, Deuteronomy, c. 2s,
v. 68, " And there ye shall be sold to your enemies, and no
man shall buy you."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the 3d, 1821—" And ye
will prize yourselves there to thy enemies for servants and
maidens, but none will purchase."
Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part 2d, p. 26, 1819
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Judges, chap. 15th,
v. 4—" And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes,
and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand
in the midst between two tails."

Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1825, New Translation—', So Sam-
son went, and he took three hundred sheaves, also he took brands,
and he turned end to end, and he put in. brand between two
of the ends."

Note. —See Anti-Deist, Part the 2d, page 41, 1819.
Authorised Version and Deuay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22,
v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah, ' Sze:

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Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1625, New Translation—" Now Saul
abode by Gibeah, under the Grove toward Ramah," &c.
Note.—See Classical Journal, No. 5, for April, 1811.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 King's, chap. 17,
v. 4, "And it shall be, that thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the
brook ; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the sth, 18.31.—" Thus it
shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded
the Arabians to supply thee there."
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread, &c.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Psalms, chap. 51, v. h,
" Behold ! I was shapen in iniquity ; and in sin did my mother
conceive me."
Hebrew, Part, 7th, 1834, New Translation.—" If I were
shapen in iniquity, or in sin, my mother had conceived me."
Note.—Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me. This verse, as it stands in the common
version, is not consistent with the Scripture. The Divine com-
munication stands recorded in Gen. i. 28. and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now
it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God ereated
man to multiply and replenish the earth, he did not ordain man
to be shapen in iniquity, nor to be conceived in sin. The
Divine order for the multiplication of the human race is as holy
now as at the beginning : it is pronounced to be superlatively
good, Gen. i. 31., and this Divine order is sanctioned through-
out the Scripture, in all its purity, as at the beginning; con-
firmed by the Messiah, who said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom
of heaven, Matt. xviii. 14. ; it therefore ollrows, that if man
were shapen in iniquity, and conceivedi ; n, the Divine insti-
tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him.
Digest of the proceeding, publishing, and publicity of the
Work :—The Classical Journal, from 1810 to 1818-1818 the
appearance of the First Part. The Sun, Nos. 8,181-8,192.
Review of, and Rejoinder of the Quarterly Review. Reply to,
and Rejoinder from the Author to Quarterly Review.-1819,
First and Second Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part-1120, Cri-
tical Examination of the Objections of Mr. Whitaker, A.M.,
Cambridge. Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the
Holy Scriptures. A Reply to the Reverend Mr. Todd's Vin-
dication of our Authorized Translation and Translators of the
Bible.-1821. The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.—Mr. Bella-
my's Reply to S. Lee, A.M., Professor of Arabic in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge. Third Part.-1822. Compilations in
the Examiner, No. 771.—Aug., Oct., Nov.-1823. Nos, 785,
786, 793. 801, 803.-1824. Nos. 834, 640, 1145. In 1825.--
Fourth Part. The Times, Saturday, Oct. 16.-1825. The
Durham Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. The Liverpool Sa-
turday Advertiser, July 2.3 ; and the Norwich Mercury, Satur-
day, August 13, 1825. In 1827.—Nes. 1,021, 1,022. The
Examiner, Vol. 111., Ne. 34 and Ns. 69. Galway Indepen-
dent, 1828, Nos. 1,049, 1,050, 1,057.—The Examiner. In
1831, Part sth ;in 1834, Part 6th ;in 13.15, Part the 7th. In
1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,062, and 14,080. In 1838—
The Guide, Nos. 48,49. The Sun, Ne. 14,447. In 1839
Nos. 14,465, 14,468, 14,475, 14,482, 14,606. Nos. 14,628,
July 25th, 14,652, 14,653, 14,662, to the latter we lay ne pre-
tension, the insertions each, issuing 3,500 per day—are from
souls of kindred fire—who in this glorious field fight together
with us in our chivalry—who have allied themselves with us
in this arduous strife to " do that deed which shall gild our
humble names."—Nos. 11,684, Sept. 28th: 14,703, Oct. 21st:
14,706, Oct. 24th : 14,732, Nov. 23d, 1839.
In No. 14,822 of The Sun is another requiem o'er the grave
of the Prince of Wiles -

" Such as ne'er
Shall cease while there's an echo left to air."

It being now imperatively urged " false knowledge must be
counteracted by real knowledge, the people must be instructed
instead of being perverted ; philosophy must be made to undo
the work of sophistry. And for this a Government is responsi-
ble."—The Sunday Times, No. 911.—Conjoint with " the
people must be instructed, instead of being perverted," being a
Prince's renown—and concomitant with that " being to re..
move from our eyes the film of earthly dross, to foresee a purer
law, a nobler system, a better older of things"---" the highest
of all earthly objects, moral truth"—" of the utmost importance
to the interest of mankind"—"to drink at those living foun-
tains which lead to a life beyond life." Having also a deelara-
tion—" You may be assured that deeply sensible of the duties
imposed upon me, and more especially of that which binds me
to the support of the Established Church, I shall always use the
powers vested in me by the Constitution for the fulfilment of
that sacred obligation.''—Education. Her Majesty's Answer
to the Address. On the motion of the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Answer was ordered to be printed.—See The Sun, July
11th, 1839, and the press of the day.—lt being promulgated by
a Minister of the Crown, " May the diffusion of knowledge,
the increase of religion and morality, and the augmented happi-
ness of the people, male the present reign more glorious than
triumphs in the field have rendered those that have preceded it,
and peace have her victories no less renowned than war."—
Lord John Russell's Speech at Stroud. To obviate all tor-
tuous proceedings, may we not expect that by message from the
Crown there will be a recommendation to take into considera-
tion and grant (the matter being equally momentous) the lin-
guist in question a liberal compensation for his manuscript.
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