Des Arc citizen., 1860-03-21
For the Des Arc Citizen.1
 J. W. MOORE AND REVISION.

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 How, MT. Moore, did you discover this Have you single book issued by the .B- ble Revisions Or do you depend on second hand scraps for the basis of your objection? Grant there are some excep- | lionable renderings, does this fact, Ii It I be one) sustain your declaration that t will likely be, inferior :" in eOery respect to the version in use, or, is MT. M as his manner is, speaking at random! The revision from which you quote, are as |you know not final. You knoo that the Union has never endorsed them as ac- curate in every respect" They are sent out for criticism criticism is invl- ted-and if you, Sir, object to any render ing or construction, of the inclpient re- visions, write it out-give the grounds of objection, collate your authorities send it to the Officers of the Union, and it will be courteously received, and whatever weight It may deserve will be accorded, This does not suit you? No Sir, the ig- noble work of dragging from oblivion efete islanders, and hurling them at those who would do noble thing, becomes you beuer-your own actions bearing witness. You ridicule the lectures ol men you never heard, and oracularly con demn revisions you never read.
 A vain attempt at wit is made over the occurrence of the rendering "the under- soorld instead of "heH," Job Ills. But this like all that Mir. M. has written is remarkable only because of its entire pointlessness. The reader would sup pose that such a rendering was thing unheard of, MODERN novelty. Hell, in its current import, means place of tor ment, the abode of damned spirits; but the passage does not necessarily mean this-nor does the original word. The Hebrew word rendered Ul the place cited, "under-world," is, Msol,' which has | for its Greek representative, the word "HApEs"-so in the LXX. GEsEN1Us in his Hebrew Lexicon, defines Sheol, he under ,vorld, a subterranean place, in which are congregaled the shades of the dead.' So Gesenius, but the learned Hebraish, J. w. Moore, ridicules such a meaning of the original term, as a mod ern invention. Dr. Robinson, says: "The Hebrew Sheot signitied the under ,uorld and was held to be vast subterranean place, full of thickest darkness, where dwelt the shades of the dead but no dts function of place is indicated in the Steol of the o. T. betDeen Me righteous and the wicked." The DR. refers to Job 1l:S, the verse in question, as case in point. wish to call the readers attention to the aallcised portion of the above, since MT
 Moore, claims that the original word means the abode of the decretalty'' damned from all eternity grows rapturous and hugely sarcastic, about !" dust" and :. cobwebs" and "obsoIetisms." MT. M sneers because he can do no better, but what importance should be attached to his gibes, while great scholars and critics bear witness against his feeble criticisms as both GEsENrus and RoBIssoN do.
 MT. Moore is still more unfortunate ir l his reference to the revised version o | Rev 66 The new version is vastly su
 perior, to the old the witty exclamations i :. How plain How intelligible to tht common reader!" of MT. M. to the con
 trary notwithstanding. The common yer sion reads:s "A measure of wheat fol penny and three measures of barley fol penny" Now, though the words arc familiar. phat does the passage mean Has it any meaning? How much is .a measure 2" Is 1t gill or hogshead, o
 neither? Does the passage mean { thousand bushels for a penny or pint, or
 whats The passage does not determin
 and for dugM the English reader knoos
 t may Dc one or the other of fhe abou measures" ]" How plain !l" Tn, translation as it stands is utterly meaning
 less. But again hoao much is a penny The translators used il either in a specifi
 or in a general sense, and since, the valu' of the English pennyis specifically differ
 ent from that of the dendrius, they mus
 have used il in general sense, that is, t
 represent an indefinite quantity of money
 So the passage as il stands, presents tt the reader this wonderfully lucid state
 ment: ".9n indefnite quantity of Dltea
 for aa indetinite quantity of money an'
 thrse indefnite quantities cf barley tor ai
 indetnits qssntity cf money !" HoG
 plaiu!!s" I will now prove the indefn l iteness of the word measure and show a
 the same time, how James "prodigles Q
 scholarship" "ttriied with the meaning c i the original text. In Luke l6:6, we read
 !" And he said, an hundred measures C oil" Here, the word measure" rep
 resents the Greek word. " batos, liqui
 measure, containing 8a gallons. In tn
 next verse, the 7th, we have; |" And ho'
 much owest thou And he said, an hun
 dred measures of wheat" In this verse
 measure represents, the !" koros,
 which contains SS4 gallons :; that Il
 '' measure" an uerSe seUer, indicates Ju ten tiaues as much aS it did in verse sic . In Rev. 6:6, it is thearepresentative of tt
 '' choenx," which is, in value about o' : quart. So the word " measure,p mear quart. eight gallons or eighty gallons just as you please. .sp.And now, spra
 what does. A measure of wheat for
 penny" mean--hoD much scheat jor 10
 much nsonsyl No man can determlr l. without an appeal 10 the Greek. with tt present version. The Reviser recon