The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-09

IDOL temple, Thea Wild s,gucasesi5 often
| Hbow absurd blgndeTs. tho sfhii,las'
lmenti0ned In Genesfs as having bdeu
i found HeEe warm springs; tspledges,i
| they turned into thick clay; .s,aeegii iht6
Hath piescing and crooked "curlsn ihtc
GALLERIES; Headers into avenRifig. stos,
tiches" ITO owls t'ghatan into eatyts
odroyes" into linen yarn Hset iip,F iiiey
I render As cast dosgp, and Joseph q tslatiis
1 with sleed'es they sffalsmogFify Into {
Goat of msby e0ioTs.an e!i.5 : E. !.
/ Still! more important! than either Che
changes Of the language or tae bldndsss
OF tFapslators, have bseii the correction.
that ,ay been made In The original tekt,
by the comparison Of manuscripts gea.
crafty ana BY the, disccEsry of Two .ve;y
| ancient manuscripts OF the Bible ia pas-
ticular. , A sinsie' Blastfation of this
4 will suffice: Mark says that on the scsSpsss
tho Christ was given triae mingled with
myrrh; Matthew sage vinegar. The nat.
| ural inference Is that the writer's did nc,
Disagree, md that the errr arose lin
copying. BY comparing manuscripts the
Inference is found 20 be correct, the oldei
codlces agreeing upon Rine.o The tWp
words in the Greek are very much alike,
1 Of the same length, aud differing dray ii
/ the middle letter. The most violent ii
| atheistical shoemaiers,, when shown tba
En,anuscripts. would not hesitate In 5his
acknowledgment ,hat there wes' no ccS.
\ tFadictiont and tiatit the cguse Of thd
error was 20 be found III the cafelessnca
OF some copyist Of the Greek, text si
Matthew.
Reverence for tho Bible. Is modosa..
1t is, In fact, ans oiitsomeN Of the Rsfd.-
nation. The Greek aud ,Ramah
I Churches respect the Bible;, tho Pr6tesS.
i ant reveres sometimes worships it. lh
j old times copies weTe made with cafe, bst
]'not suficientto avoid lsistales, and :ye.k
4 few agreed. Very few agree now, excett
when printed from Tie ,SaDe ;slates, aia
1t Is not safe 20 cast stones. The doaul.
citation of chose who "added to or totie
away" has always been confined to ScGe
land.
! When the present translation was maib
there had been comparatively no coh.
parison Of manuscripts for the elimira-
| tion of errors there tgere very few iatt.
]luscripts available .no very old nt.esi.
Rcripts, we're known; the inaccurate 'Vul-
gate Latin translation) Of that day Vas
the staff upon which the forty, leaped,
and texts, known to be corrupt had to be
uBed for want ct better. Tho Oldest ctiiy
of manuscript that they. consulted vas
of the middle ages. f
within the present generation ttao
| copies OF Jne bible, made ABOUT I54U,A.
d., have been brought to light, the psEes
photographed and copies distribnied
among scholars, - 49, are the cele-
brated "Codezs iSihaiticus," found by
i Tischendorf IL q! convent On Mount
/ Sinai, and the &c odex yaticanns,p, foa4d
| in the Vatican, library att Rome, ,whsfe
i for. centuries it had reposedl RnnGtis6d
1 and ulcared for. These two al0n6 hive
been of priceless value In detecting erlDfs
ofitfansefipt tior and in harmohizihg dis.
cordaut' passages !, satisfactorily to the
skeptical as we'll as the, credulous seeker
for truth. The present version of tie
Bible Is based upon, s very. few modern
i manuscripts, not exceeding FIVE AMI num-
i ber. That now before ia is made f6En
/ careful conlparison flower twelve hui
sdrcd, ninatyaeighs being aahcienk = i'm
1.-The fourth 10 The tenth cantuty. III d.
4 dition ll;the quo sti6ns by. the nasiasic
aud early writer's have been Ecoll legthd,
and the early, translations iiito Syhac,
Latin. Gothic Egyptian, Celtic, Anbic
and Slavonic. Rgs@ is,tEAs /
Three centuries ago tho translateH OF
| King JameS had. few aids aBGG s,Iisssle ma
teriel &c: the work. Thoas OF VictoTia
have ttha tncenmullted treasure Of Ten
tlousandfable workers, and storehoise5
filled with material. Agtonishmentn niisk
be expressed that they have found go
little Of vital Importance to GhEistiality
licondemn; In the9Wofk,.of their bfsile-
cessOrs-.not that altey have made ten
4 thousand trivial aud one thohsani sms
tpprtaht' changes In the, New TesfahsAt.
The translation OF King James was
more q new revision than the Dsdsfed
ttapslauop s; athes seviaiUn of Victotis 10
more new translation than tho ordered
Ereviaion. In each case the exigencisa OF
the labor etmpellad a departtire li3ni
and compromise with the instSuetisns,
In the latter case there IL less recon
than tlis former, but after the firat excite.
ment dies e.sssay it will not ;bs gegFaiedl
Thelnew revision of the a. ID;
ment' issued from the Universally pfess
will ut first shock the Protestant WvFidl
i IL is not recognizable as q b, Sic. Trhd
chaptefs aud yeiaes are gone 3 taal9 run;
ming head lines are gone; verses &rd
/ missing changed, pared familiar tsxts
that; have become craven on the nliAds
of church people for generations have
disappeared, aud doinstheir place are 2ssds:
foreign TO the eye aud strange 20 tlid ear
Verbal and gfapitr ticall c.iang ges snsy be
counted by the tens OF tii0uaailtls 4
The first general idea That win stfike
1 the acho olar, li0sgey IS ie deIigh l5nl
faith htIllles5 win which the Greek taxs
hun been reprodnc iced for the. Englfph
4 i.y0adeTs The naPrati vAs te. "A lass