Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-28
THE REVISED NEW TESTAMENT
AND TIE DOCTRINE OF HE'LL.

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THE REVISED NEW TESTAMENT
AND TIE DOCTRINE OF HE'LL.
Cincinnati Times Star.
Ifsny translation can at all convey to
the English readers mind the exact
meaning OF the New Testament writers,
it is probable that the Revised Version
Just published is the one.
Tue large number OF religious denom-
nations represented in the Committee
on Revision, including the clergymen OF
the Church OF England, Protestant Epis-
eopalians, Methodists, Baptists, indie
pendents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians OF
Scotland and America, Lutherans,
Friends AMI Unitarians, renders any
sectarian bias impossible.
Tnis version is the result OF the COM
bined ju lgment of fifty men OF Eugiand
and America. The reyisers are cele-
brated for their great abilities, vast and
accurate scholarship, integrity, indie
pendent thought and piety.
They have spent ten years in the
work, aud have received the suggestions
OF hundreds OF scholars. Their conclu-
sions have been reached with unani-
nifty that is almost complete.
In view OF all these considerations il
must be said that what confidence We
can not repose in the fidelity OF the
present version we should have to deny
10 anv which could be made.
Much interest mas been felt in posi-
bic changes OF rendering which might
affect doctrines long held by Christen-
dom. For various reasons the chief So
hsitude has been concerning the doc
trine OF future punishment. The report
generally circulated, though as now
seen, without foundation, that the word
"help would not appear IN the revision
increased among all classes the interest
felt in the future status of that doctrine.
OF course the better informed knew that
| IL the word "help' were stricken ont any
| other word put in its place would take
the same meaning unless the context
were changed accordingly. This was
/ hardly to be expected by any, while
those who could read the Greek for
| themselves knew it would be impossi-
BILE il the translation was to be accurate.
1t is not our purpose to prove or dis
Prove the doctrine OF future punish
ment from the K. V. (Revised Version;
tn. to compare the teachings OF the K.
v. and the \. V. Authorized Nersion)
upon this point.
The word shell" il we may trust
Cruden's Concordance, occurs just
twenty-one times in the A. V. OF the
| New Testament. In the II. Y. the word
"Hades" is used in place OF shell" ten
times, the word shell" appearing in the
other eleven places. But 1t is noticea.
BILE circumstance that "hell' is retained
in every place that has been depended
upon as a proof OF future punishment,
with one exception.
A comparison of the proof-texts for
future punishment as fOnnd in both
versions will show whether that doc
trine has been strengthened, weakened,
or left in stail quo, by the revision.
In Matt. 1928, the passage Fear
/ Him which is able to destroy both soul
and body in hell, is the same in both
/ versions
The A. V. of Mark Gas reads, "iuto
hell, into the uuquenchable fire that
never shall be quenched."
The X. V. OF the same place is "into
hell, into the unQuenchable fire" Ii
there is any difference the expression
"uuQuenchsble fire" is stronger than
fire that never shall be quenched."
TIE forty eighth verse OF the same
/ chapter is alike in both versions, and
reads: "Where their worm dieth not
and the fire is not quenched." In the
| 4. V. this language form V. Al and 46,
both of which are omitted in the Z. V.
| Also the words "into the fire that never
| shall be uuenched," last clause Of V. 45
| OF Mark q, A. ", are omitted in the X
| V. But every expression found in the
| A V. is also found in the X. V. Except
| the one which is strengthened in mean
ing, V. 49,, though not SO frequently.
30 that taking the passage Mark 8: 49,
| -, the doctrine Of future punishment is
strengthened rather than weakened by
the 4. V.
Ii was stated that all the passages
upon which the proof OF the doctrine Of
future punishment depended translated
| ItA III tic y. ' Nctc Will que Xxx
ception translated the same way in the
Il. V. We will now look at that excep-
ton. II is the celebrated parable of the
Rich Man and Lazarus, Luke 10: 10 81.
For shell" in the A. V. we read
throughout "Hades" in the Il. V.
In v. 23 A. v, ain hell he lifted mp
his eyes, being in torments;;" K. v, Gin
hades he lifted up his eyes, being in
torrents" Since he is Tin torments,"
according to both versions, the failure OF
revisers to translate the Greek word
sHldes" into the Anglo Saxon Hell"
will not be considered as weakening the
sense.
A. ", v. "a, reads, al am tormented
in this fame" r. V. reads, al am in
anguish in this fame" more vivid ex-
preston than "tormented." Again, V.
81, A. v, reads, ale is comforted and
thou art tormented." The X. V. has
ale is eomfortGd and thou art in an
guish." Torment has its degrees, but,
as Crabbe says, anguish is an over
whelming pain" Verse %, OF this
chapter, speaks OF "this place OF tor.
ment" in both versions
Then these texts which have been
thought inexplicable except upon the