The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-23 00:00:00

To the Ministers and Office-bearers of the Wesleyan Me- '
thodist Societies in Manchester, Mr. O'Connell's Letter.
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 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 controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translati( n
has deservedly ob'ained, should operate as a general exam' le
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 po,sible 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 I and 2, price 245.
each, dedicated by permission to his Rolal Highness the Prime
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 Jeromes and the
European versions."
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
Part 4th in 1825, containing from Joshua, c. 1. to I 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, a. 17. v. 12 t•
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, P"ee 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 strippe& the naked of their clothing.
This is, perhaps, one of the passages which he deems elegant,'
' simple, and 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 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. I,
for March, 1810.
A Reply to the Right Rev. Bishop of St. David's. See
Classical Journal, No. 26, for June, 1816.
The True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, not 33 but 52j
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.
Authorized Version and Douay Bible, Deuteronomy, c. 28,
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 cud, and he put one brand between two
of the ends."
Note.—See Anti-Deist, Fart the 2d, page 48, 1819.
Authorised Version and Denay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22,
v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah," &e.
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. 5,
" 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 ;ruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now
it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God created
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' ol)bws, that if man
were shapen in iniquity, and cunceivedia n, the Divine insti-
tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him.
Mr. O'Connell is a powerful speaker, a skilful politician, an
able advocate for civil and religious liberty, but he should not
attempt theology.—The Sun, No. 14,672.
" Swift seems to have entertained some gloomy forebodings
of the melancholy fate that awaited him. On seeing a tree,
the top of which was withered, he shook his head, and ex-
claimed, I shall be like that tree, I shall die at top."
Mr. O'Connell, though having received the friendly admo-
nition of this paper, in our matter of " dying at top," must
still wear his feathers "in his cap of vanity."
" In London," observes Batista Angeloni, in Letters on the
English Nation, 1750—" religion seems to be
periodical, like
an ague, which returns only once in seven days, and then at-
tacks the inhabitants with the cold fit onl which physicians
reckon the most fatal ; the burning never succeeds in this
country."
" Even on their days of worship in their Churches,
there is ten thousand times more inattention to their
duty, than to the price of stocks in Change-alley all
the rest of the week; and the fervour of their devo
tion, to obtain a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to
that of procuring one in Parliament, purchasing a good bar-
gain on the Exchange, or trying to obtain a good place at
Court ; they are as cool and inanimated in their acts of devo-
tion, as they are warm and active in those of getting riches,
and their temples and exchanges are accordingly constructed
within for those different dispositions, every family having in
their chu-ches a snug pew, a kind of closet, where they can sit
and sleep, or employ themselves in anything but their duty to
the Highest ; whereas in their places of commercial rendez-
vous there are no scats, they would be useless there, the zeal of
gain keeping them standing to their duty."
With this accurate delineation of the " Corporation of the
City of London," where " the fervour of their devotion for a
seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in
Parliament ;" and this being the municipal body which gives
tone to the institutions of the country, what promoter, we
may expect on behalf of a matter " of the utmost importance
to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life."
It is a melancholy reflection that the " two Estates" distin-
guished amongst us as " collective wisdom" throughout the
realm should have had no deeper feeling towards a linguist of a
country than the frequenters of " 'Change-alley."
It is now more than 30 years since the eminent linguist Bel-
lamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical of
the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
Journal ;" it is 22 years since we became adherents to his pro-
mulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the
Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vi-
tuperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injus-
tice from the press of England.
It is pleasingto us ;to observe a conspicuous personage in our
triple state, who was equally unmindful in his day, and of the
posthumous fame of a Prince. Sir Robert Peel has his proper
estimation with a portion of the Press. " The Tories quarrel
with the Hon. Baronet because of the feeble, shifting, cowardly
pol.cy which he has pursued during several Sessions of Parlia-
ment. We now find this once trumpeted statesman,
everywhere inveighed against by those of his own faction, as a
sluggish and irresolute, if not a feeble-minded, statesman."—
Sunday Times.
When malignancy, the characteristic of, olden time—for
Shakespeare wrote " Mens evil manners live in brass ; their
virtues we write in water"—is so rife amongst us, we consider
it our bounden duty to break a lance with the assailants of the
memory of the Prince and Patron of the Work, " of the ut-
most importance to the interest of mankind," and a life be-
yond life"—who
Distort the truth—accumulate the
And pile the pyramid of calumny
—English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Byron.
Digest of the proceeding, publishinfimann,tdeNoplsiiB.bli,cliBtyllB-osifBlt9tlh:ee
Reply to,
Work:—The Classical Jopurnaratl., from 11310
appearance of the First
Review of, and Rejoinder of the Quarterly Review.
and Rejoinder from the Author to Quarterly Review.-1819,
First and Second Part of Anti-Deist. Secondi Part_ goo_, Cri-
tical Examination of the Objections of l r. Whitaker, A.M.,
a
Cambridge. Reasons in favour of
New Translation of the
Holy Scriptures. A Reply to the Reverend Mr. Todd's Vin-
dication
of our Authorised 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. —I 822. Compilations in
the Examiner, No. 771.—Aug., Oct., Nov.-1823. Nos, 785,
sm.-1824. Nos. 834, 840, 845. In 1825._
7FBo6u'rt7ll93l;Barot.l, The Times, Saturday, Oct. 16.-1825. The
Durham Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. The Liverpool Sa-
dtuarvd,a.y4aAgduvsetrtlinstril.y ‘2.slla; alnBd27th.lNNoerss.vitt:ho2llll,erle,uor2y2,
1,022. The
Eiaminer, Vol. 111., No. 34 and No. 69. Galway Indepen-
dent, 1829, Nos. 1,049. 1,050, 1,057.—The Examiner. In
1831, Part sth; in 1834, Part 6th ;in 1835, Part the 7th. In
1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,062, and 14,080. In 1838—
The Guide, Nos. 48,491.,4T7517
154u,4n8,2,N014,6140,64.47.Ne15n.
14,628,1839
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Nos. 14,465, 14,468. 4
July 25th, (4,652, 14,653, 14,66, to the latter we lay no 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.
By Appointment: Build and Catkin. Booksellers to her Ma-
jesty, Pail-wall; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, St.
Paul's, London.
Letter to
Bowles's " Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope," by
the Right Hon. Loud Byron, and that Noble Lord's Works,
complete in one volume.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam : J.
Muller and Co. Leyden : W. H. Hazenberg. Paris : Ar-
thur Bertrand. Venice : .L B. Missiaglia. Petersburg :
Sc./mess:llk°. 1826.