The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1878-02-21


society and appropriated to the i'll
tended end. Now, suppose there is
a move that uusettles and renders
void this great work what is gained
thereby2
Can the American Bible Union
"countervail the Kings damages?"
Who could quell the confusion that
would enspe, or undertake to make
a new and better translation? Who,
on the face of this earth, would have
the influence, the wisdom or the
power to say to-, and for the millions
concerned, what that translation
should or should not be? The scene
that would ensue is aptly described
in 1et Timothy vi, 4:h. "Do,ing
about questions and strites of words" {"
1t is one thing to enter open dis
cussion Of religious rolemics, and
quite another to find and settle for
The masses what is truth. Let such
discussion arise in regard to the
matter before us, and where is the
oil that will aIlay tae troubled wa
tersS Where is the judge that ends
that strife? Let lovers OF truth, of
peace on earth and good will to-
ward men," beware how they tam
per with this ''seventy times seven
headed HYDRA" which will not down
at the bidding of those who arouse
him. Let such beware lest too soon
protestant christendom present the
spectacle long hoped for by Bible
hiding, Bible-hating Rome, parti-
san division even TO weakness and
ruin.
Our present seeming divisions are
comparatively ban mless. Tie pro
tcstant world reads one and the
same Bible, and holds one and tue
same Christ as The head. Rome re-
fuses to suffer the common people
to read the Bible in the mother
tongues, ostensibly b cause it would
lead to schis.n in her ranks, really
because she is afraid of ''freemen
whom The truth makes free" She
points to divided protestantism as Il
proof of what she alleges. Give us
protcstantism as it is, with King
James as lis charter and Christ as Il
head, a thousand times rather than
the united ignorance IF Rome and
the Pope as head; but never, oh,
never, let the mother of harlo,s point
to The protestant world, driven to
that degree, that every sect has it's
own Bible, and no two of the Bibles
alike. Tell it not in gatIH, pub.
lish it not in the streets of
Ashkelon, lest the daughters Of the
Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters
Of the nncircnmcised triumph" The
writer, alluded to, seems to find
f,ult with the translation about the
Greek word Baptjzo. Well, they
could not do otherwise. There was
no one term in our language that
would at all cover it, in all the mean
ings that good Greek usage had at
tached to it. The like thing has been
often done in the scientitice world.
photographers do not make words.
Writers borrow and transfer, and
usage confirms them, aud then it is
the business of the Lexicographer to
record aud define. We would res
pec'f"lIy ask the writer to look at the
Greek and English Lexicon compiled
by John Pickering, L Id, edition
OF Wilkins, Garter &c Co., Boston,
t948, article Baptldzo, page OF Lex
lean 20l, left hand column, line 16
from top. Also, Lexicon by Rev.
John Graves, edition Of wilkins,
Garter & Co., Boston, 1851, gage
10, word Baptidzo, line Of defni-
ion 4. To justify the translators in
what they did l will say this: there
are none, we presume, who say that
that word never means immerse, ex