The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-25 00:00:00

LI IE it A It Y It EVI

The ItOLY BIBLE, oewly Translated from the Origins'
Hehrew, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By .JoHNT
Atithnr of " The History of all Religions."—•
.I.oxes.m AN, HURST, REES, 0:131E and 13Itowlg, Paternoster-
TOW ; BUDD and CALNIN, P411.11:11.1.

In a former Paper we noticed the Neve
latinn Trans-
(f 'fors BIBLE from t! le original Hebrew
wily, by Mr. .1 lint.LAmy, and as this Work is
-c.ilculated to in.preis the tnind with increased ve-
neritiou for Tile BIBLE, and begins to excite
much inquiry, it may he tigteeabl'e to our Re-3de►s
if we occasionally, on a Saturday, select a few

passages, and contrast them with the same pas-
sages in the Received Translation, By these
means the learned and serious reader may then
draw a conclusion, and form some judgment RS to
What support and attention ought to be paid
:hy every true Member of the Establishment to
-Ole arduous and highly important labours of the
Author.

In the Intrwlnction we find that some of the
TrAnslatioms given by Mr. BELLAMY have met

with opposition from certain ynarters, where it
has 'been attempted to shew that he has been
mista'ken in many of his Translations. Ile has
obviously thought it his dttty, for the satisfaction
of his revlers, and for the cane of truth, to meet
these objections fait!), and openly., and has incor-
porated 'them in his Introduction to the Book of
GENESIS. By a perusal of them, learned and in-
telligent Readers will perhaps be induced to think
that such objections have been made in manifest
ignorance, and that all that has been said by these
objectors, like the gourd of JONAH, which Caine
sip in a night, and perished in a night, falls to the
gt °tin& •

One of the passages which has occasioned much
controversy is in 2 Kings, v. 18—:

New Translation. Received Translation.
In this thing will Jehovah In this thing the Lord pat,
pardon thy servant ? When ti.ti thy servant, that when
env < orl came to the horse of ins tuastercometh to the house
Rimmon to -worship there, of 11i:union to worship there,
then he leaned on my hand, and he lean4h on my hand,
and I myself worshipped in and I how mpelf iu the Louse
the house of 11.i:union : since I of Rimmon ; when I bow
myself worshipped in the down myself in the house of
house of Itilmnon, will Jeho- Itimmon, the Lord pardon
vah, I pray thee, pardon thy thy srvant in this thing.
servant in this thing

In confirmation of the new Translation, it is
shewn that the verbs, which in the received
Translation are rendered in the future time, are
in the Hebrew in the put time. It has been
said, that on the part of Naaman, " it was an
anxious enquiry for direction in duty." We quote
a part of the answer to this injudicious observa-
tion : " Is it possible to suppose that the prophet
could direct a worshipper of the God of Israel, es
a mark of his duty, to bow before the idoi
Itint-
mon ? According to the authorized version, it
is an indulgence that Naaman is made to ask—an
indulgence to cotr.alit sin—an indulgence to break
the cotnmand of God—au indubjence to do that
which the Hebrews were brought out of Egypt
to destroy—au indulgence to render the miraculous
cure of no effect, which was to break in pieces
tbe idolatry of Syria—in short, an indulgence to
insult the God of Israel, by sheaving that his pro-
phet directed Naaman to bow before the idol
Rimmon; and thus to favour the enemies of God."
References, however, are given to. some of our
most eminent scholars, who have translated the
verbs in this verse as they stand in the Hebrew,
viz. in the past time. In the xxivth page, these
remarks are thus concluded :

" Now, when we consider that the cure of
Naaman was done by the power of God, to break
in pieces the idolatry of Syria, that it had this
effect on Naaman, and that it he had returned to
his land making the same profession of idol wor-
ship, although he had experienced this great cure,
as he acknowledged by the hand of the God of
Israel, instead of she►ving the Syrian nation the
folly of depending on idols, such a proceeding on
the part of Naaman, sanctioned by the prophet of
God, would have more firmly established the people
of Syria in the worship of idols. The Common
Translation of this passage can never be allowed
by any sound grammarian." This passage,, ac-
cording to the New Translation, has been preach-
ed from by many of the Clergy, and the hearers
have been delighted to find that the Scripture did
not contradict itself, and that in no period of the
sacred history vas any person granted an indul-
gence by tl►e servants of God to commit sin.
New Tran.r!atien. Received Translation.
1. Sam. xix. 9.
Now the spirit of Jehovah And the evil spirit from the
was displeased with Saul. Lord was upon Saul.
The New Translation spews, that the word
which in the Received Translation is rendered
evil, means displeased, as in Psalm xxvii. 5. and
that there is no authority whatever for the word
from, which has been injudiciously put in by the
Translators.

Received Traralati9n.

New Translation.
e'er. 24.
Then he took off his gar- And he stript cloathes
Iment, and prophesied also the also, and prophesied before
same before the face of Samuel in like manner, and
Samuel, but he supplicated lay down naked all that day,
artfully, all that day, and all and all that night.
tilat night.
Mr. BELLAMY has been charged with having
mistaken paarum, sublil, for gnaarom, naked:
But lie replies---" I have not been mistaken the
words gvaarum, and gnaarom. are not differen:
riots ; they both mean to be subti/, either with a
view to produce good, or with a view 1)1 clrcuni-
venting the intentions and devices of others. see

‘ll.t.t.Q. G,ll. I h. 1.,
tvliere goat:row has the saftte mcatiing, 1 smot.
xxiii. 22 But these distinctions in the applica-
tion of the vvord have trot been onderstotA by
these Pseudo-liebraists. 'rain which it appears
that I have not mistaken the word gnaoruni for
gnuarom, but such writers have been mistaken.
who have not. understood the tootle of speech
which is common inevery language. The serpent
was sntnil, because it was the instrometit of evil ;
Saul was artful, because he supplicated befote
Samuel in hypocrisy, with a design to murder
David. A wt,e man who co'eretht shame is
prurient, bot the wrath of a foul is presently
known. Prov. xii. 16.''
New Translet Received Trairshrtion.

1 Sam. 11. 23.
Notwithstaudim4they heart:- Notwithstandin they head:-
elm] not to the voice of their ened not unto the voice of
father, therefore it pleastil their father, because the Lord
Jehovah to cause them to die. would slay them.
If the sons of Eli hail known that the Lard
would slay thent, for not hearkening to the voice
of their tither, as is signified in the common
version, they would have hearkened to his in-
struction.

New Trans-Iv/ion.
I.a. ti. 10.

Received Translation.

The heart of tl►is
,people Mahe the heart of this
was ►Wade gross, also his e,rs people fat, and • make their
heavy, and his eyes were ears heavy, and shut their
turned aside; lest he should eyes; lest they see with their
sir with his r!tes, and hear eyes, and hear with their
with his ears, or his heart ears, and understand with
should understand, and re- their hearts, and convert and
turn and he heated. be healed.

We refer the reader to the article on this pas•
sage, in the Introd,ction, p. xxxi. where it is sa-
tisfactorily proved that God gave no command to
the prophet to make the heart of the people fat,
to wake thtir ears heavy, and to shut their eyes,
lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with
their ears, and undeastand witit their hearts, and be
converted ; but that it was the people, by their
stubbornness and infidelity, who made their hearts
gross, shut their ears, aunt turned their eyes aside,
lest they should see, hear, understand, and be con-
verted. This passage is quoted by Christ, Matt.
xiii. 13. agreeably to the New Translation of the
Hebrew.

New Translation. Received Trat►slation.
iii. 6.
Shall evil he in the city Shall evil be in the city and
and Jehovah hath not reqiiit- the Lord bath nut dune it ?
ud it.

Thus does the common version charge God
with the commission of evil ; hut the New Trans-
lation spews the ouimpeachableness of the moral
justice of God. Yet it appears that there are
persons who are dating enough to say, because
it hi() said in the commou version, that God is
the author of evil. Those who will not acknow-
ledge the superiority of the New Translation of
this passage, must be left to their own refl...c.
dons ; they will nut afford them auy real satis-
faction.

New Translation.
J cr. iv. 10.

Received Translation.

Then I said, Ah, Lord God, Then I said, Ah Lord de-
surely thou bast greatly de- horah, truly to desolation,
ceived this people, and Jeru- thou bast desolated this prro-
salem, saying, Ye shall have ple, even to Jerusalem, for
peace; whereas the sword saying, Peace shall he among
reacheth to the soul. you; but the sword reacheth
to the soul. _

Ch. xx. S.

0 Lord thou bait deceived Thou bast perswaded me,
roe., and I was deceived : thou 0 Jehovah, thus I was prr-
art stronger than I, and hait. swaded ; strenKthen thou me,
prevailed fur thuu bast prevailed.

Thus in the common version, God is charged
with having greatly deceived the people and Je-
rusalem, in saying, they should have peace. Bur
it appears that the word which is translated de-
ceived, means desolated. See where the sane
sense is given, Isaiah, xxxvi. 26. To lay ease.
The author then says, p. xxxiv. " Thus it appears
that it was not God that deceived the people and
Jerusalem, saying, Peace shall be among you
but it was God who caused the desolation even
to Jerusalem, because the false prophesiers had
declared, in contradiction to the word of God by
the prophet Jet culla!), that the hild Should have
peace. Therefore God suffered the desolation of
the people, because they believed the false pro-
phets,for saying peace shall be among you."

.Ateit, Translatiwt.
Isaiah, ix. 3.

Received Translation.

Thou bast multiplied the Thou bad multiplied the
nation, and not. increased the nation, and not increased the
joy; they joy before thee ac- joy : they have rejoiced he-
cordin; to the joy in harvest, fore thee according to the joy
and as men rejoice when they in harvest ; accordingly as
divide the spoil. they rejoice when they di-
vide the spoil.

We quote the following note-;—" This passage
is one of those which has perplexed commenta-
tors, in all ages, for the last clause plainly con-
tradicts the first. The first states that God had
multiplied the nation, but that he had not in-
creased the joy; the second, that they re-
joiced before him as men who return from
the harvest, or as those rejoiced who divided
the spoil. This error, which has been
coped into all the European Translations
flout the versions made in the first ages of the
Christian Church, has been made by the hnpro-
per translation of the Hebrew word saanichou,
which is translated as the present tense of the
word joy, viz. they joy. But it is the third per-
son plural incur, in the conjugation Ka!, and
should. be translated as the same word is in
Psalm xxxv. 15. viz. in time past, to which the
Prophet refers, they rejoiced. Thus we shall have
a true translation of this hitherto controverted
and contradictory passage, perfectly consistent
with the grammar of the language, without sub-
stituting the daring and ungrammatical jute:To-
:Jai-ion of the Masoretic commentators, which has
been resorted to by writers of this description,
to the present day.
" '[bus it appears that the Hebrew, when un-
derstood, is the unpolluted fountain, the pure re-
cord of the will of God to man. Who is not the
author of evil, Amos. iii. 6. Who did not com-
mand the prophet to make the heart of the people
their ears heavy, to shut their eyes, lest they
should see, and hear, and be converted. lea. vi 10
Who never repented that he made man on the earth.
Gen. vi. 6. Nor did the Prophet charge the God
of Holiness with deception, saying, as it is said
in the vulgar version—Air Lord God, surely thou
host greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem.
Jer. iv. 10.-0 Lord that host deceived me, and I
:as deceived. All as inconsistent with the ori-
ginal Hebrew, as they are with the HOLINEiti,
JUSTICE, AND INIERCY OF GOD."

THE SUN.

801,0-1 QUIS DICEHE [SUM .AIiDEAT ?

LONTDON,
S.ITUUDAY, JULY 25, 1818.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Wednesday last. They tont inue silent respecting
the Conspiracy. General CANUEL made his ap-
pearance in the Court of the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police on Tuesday, the day fixed for the
coining an of his cause against 11.1. M. de SENN E•
VILLE and FARVIER, for calumny (with reference
wall:: late affair at Lyons), and who had al,o lodg-
ed a complaint for calumny against the General.
The General addressed the Court at considerable
length, complaining of the steps taken against
bins with respect to a charge (falsely made as he
contended) of conspiracy, and particularly of the
seizure of his papers. He demanded, under tile
circumstances in which he was placed, especially
as his papers had been seized, that the cause be-
fore the Court should be postponed, pledging
himself in the meantime without delay to
make his appearance before the Juge d'lnstruc-
amt. M. I\IAUGUIN, the Advocate for Col. FAR-
VIER, objected to the delay demanded, but had no
objection to consent if it was not demanded as
a right ; and M. Doris!, for M. SRN NEVILLE, op-
posed it on similar grounds. M. COUTURE, for
General CANUEL, insisted that there were seve-
ral documents amongst the papers of .the Gene-
ral that had been seized %gild' were essential
to his prosecution of this cause. After some
observations in reply from M. MAUGUIN, the
Court. deliberated, and agreed to postpone the
case till Saturday the Ist of August. The fol-
lowing are Extracts :

Palm, JULY 22.—Yesterday the King pro-
menaded, at seven o'clock in the morning, iu the
little Park of St. Cloud. His Mojesty afterwards
transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu.

The harvest is far advanced in Picardy, and
is in general satisfactory. There will be a great
produce of apple 3 both in Normandy and Picardy.

" General Donnadien reviewed, on the 15th,
at Clermont Ferranti, the 4th Swiss Regiment.

" The Ex-Couvention Gamier de Saint es
is dead in America.

" The celebrated General Castanos died at
Barcelona early in the present month.

FIVE PEa CENTS.

Tuesday

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DEFERRED STOCK
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• -
" VIENNA, JULY B.—The Chief. of the General
Staff of the Army, the Baton de Peschaska, is
gone to Milan, by order of the Supreme Council
of War, to inspect the fortresses of Upper Italy,
and to adopt the measures prescribed by the act
of the Congress of Vienna respecting their state
of defence, particularly the fortresses on the Po.
Piacenza is to have a permanent gallium of Aus-
trian troops, together with troops of the Duchy."

The Flanders Mail, which arrived yesterday,
brings an account of the meeting between the
Princess MARIA LOUISA, or, as she is now styled,
the Archduchess of PARMA, and FRANCIS CHARLES
BUONAPARTE, her reputed son.—lt is said, in The
Morning Herald of this day, respecting the latter,
" we never read (of this boy) without some unea-
siness, considering the mischief' which may, one
day, be produced by the mere use of his name in
France." We perfectly agree in this sentiment ;
and as there was always a mystery attending the
birth of the boy, it ought to be ' ascertained
upon the clearest evidence. It is well known that
many stories were in circulation in France
soon after his existence was announced to the
world. It was said that MARIA LOUISA had
been delivered of a stillborn child, and that she
was imposed upOn by a suppositious offspring, who
however was really the child of NAPOLEON by one
of his Dearest Relations. As he was capable of
every specks of atrocity the story was readily be-
lieved, and no authentic proof has yet appeared
that the boy was actually the issue of MARIE
Louisa,. We do not find that in all the
plaints of BUONAPARTE, since he has been -?l,a-

froin MARIA. LoutSA-;--can we at;le
his wife, since his wife was aliVe, and Lad 13°(-1
been legally divorced when he married a sec°
time ?---we tici hot find, we say, that in all the ars'
plaints of this mane he expresses the least desire
~,of holding any commerce with MAutA Louise" °l'
any kiwi of concern for the son. It was necessary
•• e
for him to have a male-successor while be esurra
the Throne of France, but not* that it is IQ the
hands of the lawful Monarch, in Whose line "I
hope it will eternally remain, BUONAPARTE bat'
110 motives of State-policy to induce him to earl.
much about an offspring brought forward ufwil
political grounds. To conclude, we conceive
it is not only an imperative nifty on the part °
France to have the circumstances of this b°Y's
nativity fully examined, but of every other forret
who may hereafter be disturbed by his pretensions'
as be will always be deemed a good instrumo
by the JACOBI lqS in their attempts to subvert
the regular Government in France, and be cast
into obscurity, or Consigned to death, as soon al
he has served their purpose. But the retell'
sions of the Boy himself, who may hereafter be
as ambitious, crafty, and flagitious as his Fritber'
ought to be the subiect of deep interest and rri°
foresight, as it may reasonably be feared that be

" [lath maitre that in time will renew breed.,
" No teeth fur the present."-

The unfortunate warfare between SPAIII °(10
her Colonies has occasioned the appearance "
great numbers of. SPANISH and SPANISPI ASS'
RICAN PIRATES, wbo Wilk:tit scruple attach 114
Vessels of all Nations, and comink the most ntr°‘
eons robberies and massacres. Our Goveruntenit
therefore, has very propetly issued an importer't
s,
Document. It appeared in EVelling PI%
of last night, and we should have had some doubt-
of its authenticity, as it was not communicated I('
THE SUN as well as to the Evening Paper °lf.
lulled to, if we haul not frequently sotT‘led o
such acts of censurable partiality. THE St/5 I,
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the only Paper, without one exception, wlrt
r•
in
since its origin under the auspices of the
mortal PITT, has been invariably attached t° d
principles of that unrivalled Statesman, an Pr,
advocated them with the most zealot's Petit
severance. THE SUN, therefore, has a rig 4
to such communications as Government 1111sut
think proper to submit to the Public'
ate sure that the HIGHER OFFICERS of the Sriloi
who acted with Mr. PITT, know and apPrt've e
the firm consistency of THE SuN, and therelr 'ibri
never would sanction that personal patti'"'o
which it has suffered on maw; occasions be 610,,
the present, and of which our complaint %°l', 01,
doubt not, be deemed reasonable by that, as°
as by all just and liberal people.

The Jacobin Writers have affected to con‘l7o
Government for Lot pe.mittill the High C
crf.O° sir
of Westminster to head the Prneessioa oe
FRANCIS 13ultottrr, and Conseouchtly r"if
it with not having been sullicienly 0°1'11; ets
secure the public peace. But it would love -e 6
strange indeed if any of the Civil. AuTil°3l.foorp
of the State were to form part of "11°1i01
well be deemed a Jacobin Mob. It WB5 5 sree
enough that Government took effcriull cod?
by stationing a full portion of Pe'eei (has
cers to be u:ady in case of alarm, 9"
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a body of Magistrates also were in
ance, in case any riotous proceedings 133(1
yea,
curred.—Such measures, we are assured,
nil
adopted for the security of the PubliC.---10-ttla
instance in which the High Constable toten",ll,
similar procession, was that of Sir F. Bugiris of
in 1807 ; hut when it came to the knOvletigtioa
the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, ,Vho "5 oil
HIGH STIO,!ARD of 'Westminster, be n°t "5s
i,;t th
expressed his disapprobation, but probit"--e
soci
High Constable frinn ever appearing again °lisoloo
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an occasion. We therefore cannot but feel ,i,cg
surprize that the High Constable did not rec°P
Lord 5111
„,
this disapprobation and prohibition.
NiouTH, who succeeded the Marquis of --1/t1C0SOIS;e0
HAM, very properly adopted the sone %Of,
having, with his usual prudence and inreiotoas
made full preparations for resisting 13nY rtedon
conduct, which might naturally be exPecoolef'
the assemblage of so large a multitude,
.e
ing their mischievous principles and re''ei
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character.
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her M a.i ESTY yesterday was of a r"re f
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