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the original text being revised edition of the Dou1y
version. With Notes, critical and explanatory. By
FRANCIS PATRICK KENRICK, Archbishop of Baltimore
vol, Svo., PIP S97. 1860.
This volume completes Archbishop kenrick's
great labor of a new translation of the Holy
Scriptures. In his Preface the author states that
| sat the suggestion of venerable prelate, the
gospels were first published, partly with view
"to test the feasibility of the work The Acts and
"Epistlcs with the Apocalypse followed His sug-
"gestion Also led to the publication of the Psalms,
"as likely to interest the clergy. The Prophets,
''with job were subsequently issued. The Penta-
"teuch at length appeared; and, finally the hstori
| zeal books which complete the whole Bible, are
| '.now submitted. Above eleven years have passed
''since the publication of the Gospels; and several
''years had be previously devoted by me to the
''writing OF Commentary on the Scriptures, OF
(Which use has been made in the notes appended
"to the various books" The profound critical
scholarship Of DR.. Kenrck, and the candid and re-
markedly impartial spirit manifested by him, quail
~ him as much, perhaps as any individual now may
be qualified for the delicate task he has undertaken
We confess we look with small favor, however, on
attempts of this kind come from what source they
NAV We do not wish to admit that the standard
of Christian faith can in any way be modified or i'm
proved when nearly twenty centuries have elapsed
| since the last inspired words were written. Nor
are we willing to be informed that the venerable
translations, which to us have all the sancfed odor
Of the venerable original, wrong in any essen
tia matter Where the rendering involves point
of doctrine, the charged on the side will
never be conceded by the other; and where it is
merely a pathological, rather than theological
question: matter Of taste or scholar ship, rather
than of creed or practice, "with all their impertec
'''is on their head we prefer the ancient versions
Like flies in amber, these imperiectionS are not re-
garded defects but recognised parts of beauti-
full and venerable whole, they to the eye of faith
almost beautiful and venerable in Themselves
The critic has difficulty in recognizing a false
! grammatical formation, or a word or phrase OBJ
solete gross to modern ears, while the scholar
is familiar with the doubts which hang around the
accuracy Of certain portions Of every translation
but to the mass of English readers the accustomed
versions are the familiar word of God, quite much
as if the Pentateueh or Gospels had been composed
in our mother tongue; and their peculiarites sole
cisms, and even mistakes, within the sanctuary
which surrounds tie whole. We must not be
understood as in any degree desiring to
countenance error in matter so important
| as the due rendering of the Scriptures
| What contend for is, that if substantial
accuracy has already been attained, and that all
things necessary to salvation are as clearly set
forth as they can be, it is useless, and perhaps
dangerous interference with the faith which be-
ieveth all things, to attempt to reform that which
it is the first lesson of all to regard perfect 1t
was suggested, we think, by Fielding, that for at
is easier FOR camel to pass through the eye of
needle" &C., should read ga cable" Now, in
| asmuch as a cable bears a sort of relation to
needle, which a camel does not, and as the impOss-
bility illustrated is complete in either case it might
perhaps be more in accordance with the principles
OF correct taste, to have said cable than camel espe
cally if it were cable and not camel in the original
Yet, the passing Of a camel through the eve of
needle has been for three centuries our ac-
knowledged symbol of the difficulty attending the
entry of a rich man into the ngdom of Heaven,
who would now patiently submit to have the illus
tration thus modified? We had as lief almost that
"strain at a gnat and swallow camel" should be
altered according to the wel-known blunder, to
'stran at a gate and swallow a su,o-mW.' Dir.
kenrick freely Acknowledges his obligations to the
Protestant version.
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