Litchfield enquirer., 1837-04-27
A FARM WANTED.
Webstey's Edition of the Biblc.
From the ReligioMs Intelligen

ETOaS Me hNeLtgtOWS 1ntetEtSenCef. A various opinions have been entertained, even "A by our learned men, respecting the propriety of amending the language Ot the common version of the Scriptures; and as common English readers may not know the reasons which call for some alterations It an attempt to correct and purity the language of this version.
 l. In the common version, some expressions which were considered to be good English when the trans laton was made, are now universally considered un- grammatical. Thus arhich for scho referring to per- sons, IS never admitted into modern writings per- agree that ohich should never be used to repre- sent person. "Or father sDhch art in heaven" is not now good English; ,scaich should be soho.
 The word h,s applied to things is not grammatical: The fruit tree yielding seed after his kind" is not The word shall is used where ,Din ought to be used in multitude of passages, probably in more than Should is sometimes used for could but most mpro- pery' according to established usage.
 An hungered. is not good English.
 ;. Many words in the common version have, in modern use, entirely lost the sgncation which they have m this version; and some of them certainly, if not all! are unlnteligibe to the common English read er It IS doubtful whether the word ledsing, Ps 4:2 IS generally understood. The word carriage, as used in the Bible isnot understood. The expression fenced word now dsused The word eonsersation Spw ssni. fes mutual discourse; in the Bible, it has that sign6cation. The word prevent now signifies to stop or hinder from taking place in the Bible 1t has very different meaning and it is doubtful whether in the sireen passages in which 1t occurs it is ineligible to one reader in hundred. There are some words which are inteigible to most readers, but which are used in different senses; and the proper sgnitcanon Tn the Bible may be easily mistaken. Thus the most common meaning of disco Uer as now used is to find or come to the knowledge of what was before unknown. But in most of the passages in which IS used in the Bble this is not the signhcation-the sense is to uncover or reveal The word vol S,d may not be wholly uninteligibe, as used Tn the Scriptures; yet 1t is so generally used for command that young persons may mistake it's ing, when it is used for inyite. ~
 The word trdde as used in the Bible does not ex. press the true idea of the original
 Mea is so generally used for flesh, in modern times that it may be misunderstood for in Scripture it sig nlfes f0Odi general. Dr. Campbell makes similar W is and ,Oot are obsolete, so is deal as used in the Bible.
 Surely in the common version, is used in sense ob- Cunning is now used in sense different from that in the Bible, in which it signifies sktlu, in good sense.
 The phrase God speed is neither grammar nor sense. These examples may suffice. g 3. There are some errors in the present version man of learning pretends to deny the fact See Gen. ?: l3; Dicut1: 1; Matt. 23: M-I Cor 4: 4. By rendering the Hebrew Cush by EtioEa, the transla- tors have placed Ethopa in Asia, in several passages when in fact there was no country so called in Asia, and very certain that the writers o the Scriptures had no knowledge of any such word. The elements of guage of Asia. The transators made the mistake by following the Greek copy of the Scriptures instead of the Hebrew.
 These and many other errors and faultsin the com mon version, Dr. Webster has corrected; and it is believed very much to the satisac of those who have examined his edition of the Bible. It may be remarked that in several of the passages above referred to-, the ransators erred by Geviating from the older versions made in the reign of Eizabehs which were correct They altered what was corTece and made it ncorrecs This is the fact in Gen. g. l3. and in Matt. 23 24
 1t may be further remarked that the American Bi- ble Society sending Bibles abroad which differ in the translation of certain passages. The French CO., py which they have published is correct in several pas sages, in which our common version IS tncorrect.- Some of the versions above cited furnish examples. In these brief remarks, no particular notice will bo taken of many words and phrases in the common ver sion which decency forbids to be uttered in company; the utteranee of which dsturbs family deyotion; the insertion of which in any other book would preclude the Bible is inconsistent with the refinement and dee corum of the present age:
 TESTIMONIALS "Dr. Webster's edition of the Bible, in which tho language of the translation is purified from obsolete. ungrammatcal and exceptionable words and phrases, is approved and used by many clergymen and other gentlemen very competent to judge oi its merits; BENJAMIN SULLIVAN,
 JAMES l.. KINGSLEY,
 CHAUNcEY A. GOODRICH, Professors"
 DENIsoN OLMsTED,
 THEODORE D. WooLsEY,J
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 LEONARD BACON,
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