The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-09-19

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srs knov there 10 coosraAicSioo. TA,
natural inferencs 10 thst the vritsr
did not d.sagrse. and that the srro,
afoss in copyise. By ssmpssiuR nan
uscripts the infersncs 10 found 70 b,
cnrrsct, the older eodicss agreeing spou
vine. The two words n 0resk sr,
very much alike. Of the sams lsueth
and differing only in the middle letfsr
Ths most violent Of ssbsistical shosna-
kers, when shown the massscsipss,
soold not hesitste in his sekps svlsdee,
mens that there was no cnotraAicSion
and that the cause Of the errur vss q
be found In the carelsssness Of sous
copyist Of the Creek text Of Matthew,
ORIGINAL TEXTS.
Rsversncs for the Bible 10 modern.
1t 10. In fact. On outcome Of the
Reformation. The Greek and Rnmsu
churches respect the Bible; the
Protestant fsveees-somstimes vor-
shine it. In old tisss copies we're made
With care. bat not Sufficient 10 aveid
mistakes. aDd very few agreed. Very
lev agree nov. except when psissed
from the ans plates. and 10 10 ses afs
10 cast stones. The dsnunsissios Of
those Who 'sdded b or took away hes
always besn coa6ned 70 Scotland. s
When the TRANSLATION wss msds
there hsd been comparatively no
cemparison Of manuscripts for the
elimination Of erreFs; thors we're very
few manuscripts available; ps very old
msuuscripts we're known; the inaceursts
Vulgate Latin translatioul Of shst day
Was The ttaf apon which ths forty
leaned; and texts known TO b corrupt
had 10 be ussd for want of batter. Tks
Oldest copy Of . msnuscript that they
coosoltsd was Of shs middle ages.
Within the pressat Rensrstioa twe
copies ef the Bih,e. made about $40
A. ID. have been brought to light. the
pages photographed. and copies die
triboted smong scholars. These are
the celebrated -"Codsx Sinsticus," !"
found by Tischsndorf 10 convent on
Mount Sinai. aud the "Codex Vati.
canas," found in the Vatican library st
Rome. where for centuries it had rss
posed unnaticsd and uucared for. These
two alone have been Of priceless value
in detecting errors IF Transcription eod
in hsrmonixing discoedant passages
satisfactorily to the skeptical q we'll -
the credulous seeker fr truth. The
present version Of the Bible 70 bsssd
up,n very few modsru mauuscripts.
not exceeding Ave 10 number. That
now before 10 10 made from careful
comparison Of over twelve hundred,
ninsty-eisht being ascisst-fsom ths
fourth to the tenth century. In ad.
dition, all the quotations by the par.
tristic and early writer's hare been col.
lectsd. and the early trAnslatious into
Syriac. Latin. Gothic. Egyptian. Celtic,
Arabic. and Slavonic.
Three centuries ago the trsnslstors
OF King james bad few aids aud little
material for the work. Those Of Vic
toris have the accumulase ID treasurss Of
ten thousand able workers. eAd store.
houses filled With material. Astonish.
meut must be expressed that they have
found 20 little Of vital importance to
Christianity TO condenn 10 the work of
their predecessors-aoe that they have
made ten thousand trivial and one
thousand important changes 10 the
New Tsstemsnt.
THE TWO yERsyoxs coNrARID.
The trsnslatioo Of King james was
more new revision thss the osdsrej
translation: the 4ssnslatiou Of Victoria