The Republican journal., 1880-09-16
Revision of the Bible,


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TEE NEW TESTAMENT COMPLETED SOME OF
TIE MANY CHANGES MADE
London letter to the Chicago Times gives a
partial review Of the New Testament the last
proof sheets Of which have received the approyal
OF the queens printer, the history of the work is
outlined, and the following instances are given:
The new revision Of the New Testament issued
| from the University press will at first shock the
| Protestant world. 1t is not recognizable as a
Bible The chapters and verses are gone; the
running head lines gone verses are missing
changed, pared familiar texts that have become
craven on the minds of church people fer genera
| uons have disappeared, and in their place are
| words foreign to the eye and strange to the ear
! Verbal and grammatical changes may be counted
by the Thousand. The first general idea that will
strike the scholar, however, is the delightfulnesS
| with which the Greek text has been reproduced
! by the English reader The narrative is unbrok-
en- by dlstgurement of chapter and verse, but the
| capitals, punctuation, and paragraphs lacking in
the original are. of course, supplied, and for con
Venlence OF reference to the present version, the
present divisions are marked parenthetcally. The
misleading headlines disappear finally, without
sign To denote their improper intrusion The eff
feet is striking, and marked improvement, The
sequence OF the gospel narratives, the logic of st
| Paul take on a new appearance and force that is
| not all owing to the improvement 10 grammatical
! construction of the text although in a first read
ing 1t is difficult to distinguish how much is owing
| TO the one and how much to the other.
| Take this illustration Heb iy &, y which il
| fair example of this point
OLD STYLE NEW STYLE
/ 8 Seeing thGTCtureit Since thnrnfora it re
| remaIneth that some maineth that some enter
| must enter therein, and therein. and they who
/ they to whom it was formerly received the
| preached entered not IN glad promise entered in
| because Ct unbelef: not because of dsObedl
| :. Again he limlteth ence, he again h1eth
certain day, saying to certain day to day, 50
! DAVID 10 day after so long a time aherward in
| long time; it is said, David las hath been said
| To-day, if ye will hear betore). To day, if yc
| his voice, harden not shall hear his voice
your hearts harden not your hearts
/ The fourth gospel suffers most at the hands Of
the revisers, the synopucs less even than the Rev
elatlon, and the catholic epistles least of all The
longest eXclslon Is from the tiftyhird Of the
seventh chapter to the eleventh verse Of the next,
4 inclusive.
The following verse (I2) in which Jesus declares
himself the light of the world IS Joined upon and
IS reply to the scott Of the Pharisees IN The pre-
cedlng chapter, that out Of tiallre ariseth no
prophet The next delctlo2 Of Importance is the
angelic coloring of the pool of bethesda in the
fifth chapter The following passage is omitted
by the revisers:
80 Waiting for the moving of the
water"
# For an angel went down at a certain sea
son into the pool and troubled the water who
Soever then first after the troubling of The water
| stepped IN, was made whole Of whatsoever dis
| ease he had
The famous text Of the three heavenly witnesses
4 Il John, Y I, - is Of course thrown out the fol
| loving words beng eXpunged:
| - In heaven, the Father the " ord,
and the Holy Ghost these three are one
- And there are three that bear witness in
| Another notable omission Of the revisers is to be
found in the conversion of Paul as recorded in
Acts TX , }. 6 The words expunged are
- 1t is hard for thee to kick against