The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-06-26
BIBLE REVISION.
Radical Changes from the Pres
cnt Version.

And, 10 this whole business, the
grand thing is the honest desire for
truth, observable in all the leaders. 1t
is no longera pretty hope that 'our side
cannot triumph. There is the certainty
that our side" cannot triumph, and
that no side can triumph, unless tue
truth triumphs. Professionalism may
have tailed in other duties or organ
lied religion it may lot find out the
lowest and vilest Of men and women
in their dens, it may not reconcile
classes ofsociety to each other; it may
not, be successful in its arrangements
for ritual but it has come so far, that
its real leaders in every party live and
Gle for the truth, let the truth say what
it will about their old histories Of
their conflicts. Anoble illustration of
this is the loyalty with which all the
scholars who have yet published their
views as to this revision have surren-
dcrcd the three great Trinitarian proof
texts. They acknowledge that they
are al! spurious additions Of q late date
tothc record, and must go.
/. There are three that bear wit
ness ia Leayen."-l JoHS,
.. God was--was received up in.
to glory."-l TIM. iii. 16.
3. "The church Of God, which liz
hath purchased with his own ClOOQ."-
AcTs Xx. IS.
These gcutlemen-all Of them Trini
t%arlans, who would be very glad to be
licve that these texts were genuine
manfully disown them. They are no
genuine and these men will fgh: 70.
victory under false colors. Sucl
willingness of the Church 20 unite 70.
the truth is worth more than all tho
corrections put together which they
will introduce into the familiar text 0
Scripture.
Nine-tcnths of the stumbling blocks
little or great, will drop out Of thu
Bible in the revision. There are OBJ
Scure passages, which people do no
understand, find it hard to believe, anC
hate it, if they would only say so. In
telligent clergymen, in reading from
the pulpit, tighten such passages a:
they read. Every reader has the right
to such euli htenment, if it can be givel
him.
Men Of Athens" said Paul, &C.
perceive that in all things you ar
greatly inclined to worship" He neve
Insulted them by saying, You are to-
suspicious
BE not anxious for your life, wha
ye shall cat, or what shall We dri nix
This is what Jesus said, always tn
most practical Of teachers. He neve
said what we mean when we say, 'tak
no thought for your life, what We shall
eat, or what We shall drink"
IF Jesus had given men rest, Davi(
would not have spoken of another day,
says the Epistle of the Hebrews, |
should read, if JosAua had given then
rest and, till it does, is unintelligiblc
There are hundreds Of cases vhcr
the change Of use in a proposition 0
adv erb makes the sense dark, where
to an ordinary reader o. the Greek, i
is perfectly simple. "By ard by" h
is offended, now means "he will be OF
Tended in the future" in King James
time, is invariably meant, "is offend
ed now"
The beasts in heaven will disappea.
from the revelation. They are ~"livin!
creatures 50 glorious, that the poe
could give them no name but the name
OF the living.'
Eatcth and drinketh damnation,'
will disappear.
The fifth chapter OF Romans vii! be
come ineligible and credible.
The truth will appear as to the gov
ernmen; Of the early churches, SO Ia
as they had any.
These are only instances out Of hun
dreds; for in hundreds Of such pas
sagcs will the New Testament, at least
become easier to understand.
But q change more important will be
IN q slight increase in that m~arvelou:
freshness which is even 0 the glory
OF the English Bible. Where the old
transIators did hot know the meaning,
they coud not express it; and they
blurred it or slurrcd il, as ingenious
children at school do in trausIating
what they 10 not understand. Then,
too, King james rcvisers were not
free, as has been said, from a notion OF
mock elegance of Cypression.-TRey