New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-26

I Baptist demon nation would seem o. Pee
GOOD taal c.u,u.sc4 ny the ree0.ltl1n 20 portion
of r.r body % issue revised translation o. t.e
Scripture wherein the word haItze shaI be-
rendered. '.rnersc. and so cu. - Jar as "o have
mesns Of Judging. We think a majority o. the set
me ~ \. i 20 tbe proposition
While 49, express ao opinion o.. ia merits TO.
Ills controversy. 10 seems % ~ that o revision o.
iac Received ersoa Of the Bible $ exceedingly
desirable. That version is a Che main good aar.
bat 10 IS hardly possible th.t the fooi % .-.
thrown upon che text o.. tie researches ot critics.
scholars and commentators during Che ias. tao
centuries. Should uo; enable t-ansators now %
render many passages more clearly and accurately
than in the present version.
For example, tas words .d, prerSgt and one OBJ
two others. are now used in scnsF directly oppo-
site t. that borne by ihem a. abe time the Received
Vers ou va. made. when % ~ sometimes meant.
20 k.Hf.,, o. absrr-' See lsa xiii l3. Ron. O..
D.. a. Ihess 3D. Sd s. ylcrcrf means 20 4a'fr.
rs4le ro p jore and raih,. 10 ap.4 way than .o
tI.sf or oistrIot o. iSec Psalms xvii Do. lXxafu-
10 x.,. % cx.>. Il-. Amos * l0. Thcss iv Dol
It strikes u. THAI faults s. obvious and guien.aae
as these. yet 90 calculated 10 pepex and coniouud
ths uu'e armed ought no, 20 remain uncoreciei O.
single wear 30 with the g.arir. sfamma,ica.
h.sudefs Asc COR Father utict art in heaven.
Matt yi.' Luke yl . Many doubtless suf-
pose tha. the many errors If this c.sss pertain g.
the text whom they aye simply faults Of trausa.
ton Which no one would DOW commit, hut OBJ.
grammar of our language was comparatively un
... b.. e..
vas made
The words printed IN Jf1i,r, 10 the Received y r..
son s.e given as ,app'ol by the transa'ors, being
necessary 90 complete The sense Of 'ho orr ma.
This s;stemeu, gives false idea o. the case. ln
many instance, The words given as supplied were
actually though not literally in the orieinal-that
u.s. they were implied according to tie idiom %. the
language. IN the words actually gwen as the verb
.orcsf % az English book requires and implies sub
s,snii,c tn the third person and singular number
a. It's nom.nailse aud l the .dom OF our language
did MT gurc the rominative 10 be espresso. il
would be clearly iuc uded in the verb, and DO rcnd
er.ng the sentence INTO language requiring tn
noGnnktve 70 be distinctly expressed. D; would be
iucouec. we thina to print that nominause ~
though uo. expressed IN our English way.
Bat 4 good many places, our common Bible
seems % rcad a. d The iranss,urs had taken avery
unnecessary trouble in supplying words which the
text d,d ao' need and which Il would have been
'Ar clearc. without Thus / Cor " aol The last
enemy ma, shall be destroy ca !. Death. does not
seem al a. to uced the trans stors supplied words
in Italics, and would have been clear complete and
: !arcib,e w.thOu; them Mess the text actually
implies taem, As Il does the words supplied Il some
other cases, they mar and peNer, the sense -
IN ether cases The notion justified by cur Rcceiv.
"a VERSION thai the B bic needed good dea Of
doctonls an hNius up in the trans alton IS wholly
un~ arranied though the great contrast Ia manners
+ iieas conce piions, between car people 70 Gay an
/ the lsr.eltts and Ass.ic Greeks OF e.-h.ecu O.
twenty i've centuries ago renders j, Sometimes
+ dAcu.i 10 ind a. expression in the English lsn
sossc q today tat W. N the ,ho1gh, OF He
I brew seer Or apostle %. the tine q, lsa.ah OF O;
! Christ.
If the wc.k q snip y revising Aad Enaenl.r,
toe Received Version could Dc undertaken unde,
such auspices As would abso.ye j. IRON the impu
's'ion Q, sccta.aa bias cr q inadequate ssto.AE.
ship, W shoul ejo.ce 70 see ); Elected ",
believe that consumma..oa voUd impe. thousands
! = study then Bibles who Cow neg.ec: them. al
~o0li enable many " 90 NV read the So 2tares
ie understand them better than they 30