The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-04
BIBLE REVISION.
One OF the Revision Committee.
From n. Y. Letter TO the Indianapolis Jour
nal

One of the Revision Committee.
From n Y Letter 10 the Indianapolis Jour
nal
Prof. Kendrick is one of the Ameri-
can members of the board for the re-
vision OF the New Testament. | asked
him how the revision Jared.
cit was finished some time ago." he
said, ''and the English University Press
has printed 100000 copies for the first
edition.
when viii this book be put on the
market 81 asked.
81 think fifty or hundred thousand
copies will start for this country in
week or two. The American commit
tee have had their part in the revision,
and, besides this, they have written
protest which is printed as an appendix,
faYoring certain constructions on which
the board as whole was unable to
agree"
"How many changes have been, pro-
fessor?n
20, hundreds, thousands, but most of
them are what would not be considered
very vital. Ifthe book were read from
a pulpit. fou: ont of five persons would
not notice any difference at all"
"You had before you, of course. all
the old manuscripts, recently discovered,
the Thichendorf, Vatican and others ?''
Certainly; when the current version
of the bible was prepared by King James
| forty seven, they had no manuscript
older than the eighth or ninth century,
and these had been mutilated and inter
polated by monks, for one purpose or an
| other. But now we have the Alexand-
rian, the Tatican and the SInaitic, or the
Tichendorf as you call it, all dating as
early as the fourth century"
| What rule of Interpretation did the
| committee adopts"
mo infiexible rule If the oldest YER
| sions agreed in emitting something IL
| our accepted text, we generally struck
it out; if two versions omitted it and
one contained it, we generally en-
closed it in brackets, as apocry
phal matter; and if all in
cluded it, we generally let it stand
But in some instances all of these rule:
have been reversed, for we applied tht
internal evidence and context test, also
What are the important changes -
'Well, we have struck out the verse!
about the angel troubling the pool, evi
IDENTIFY an Interpolation; and that abou
the Trinity-'there be three that bea
record in heaven, the Father, Son anC
Holy Ghost, and these three are one
probably the invention of some pioui
monk; and we have changed the Lord
prayer by emitting the doxology at thu
end-'for Thine is the kingdom, and 'th'
power, and the glory, forever, amen
another middle ages addition not iounC
in any of the older manuscripts"
these will be missed, professor"
Yes; but truth is truth, and perhap
the truth is as good as anything"
"These are the most importan
changes 2" l asked
There are some others that might b.
deemed as Important-all changes in thu
text of the Bible are important, in Ger
tain sense We include in brackets, a
probably apocryphal, the story of tn
woman taken in adultery, and the las
twelve verses of the sixteenth chapter o
Matthew
Not being as able to quote the Who'll,
of the gospels as the reader doubtless is
l referred to Bible close at hand, ant
found that the verses thus covered will
doubt include some of the most vita
parts of the record of the intercourse o
Jesus with his disciples, in which b.
|. foretold his second coming, spoke o
himself as Jesus the Christ, and confer
red ON them the power to loose and bint
fol heaven, the power still claimed b.
Catholic priests.
Dr. Bright said it was unfortunat
that an American copyright had not bee
taken out, for now the cheap book pirate
would reprint the book as soon as
copy landed here, and flood the countr
with them at low prices. If a copyrigh
had been obtained there would be som
chance that the devoted men who hav
spent years over it might be paid 70
their labor and sacrifice.
1 forgot to ask the Baptist brethrel
, what effect the revision had on the di:
| rNrItoA hnnf inn hF1f
hear from other quarters that the immel
sionists "have it," and that the grea
. dipper is IN the ascendent.
An Episcopal friend tells me tha
Bishop A. Cleveland Coke, of Buffalo
, being asked last week what was the bes
: use that could be made of the revise
/, version of the Testament, immediatel
answered, ITO put it in the fire" Hi
, father, DR.. Coke, the prominent Presby
, terrain divine, has, on the other hand, al
ways been in favor of the revision.
Perhaps, by the way, you have neve
heard of the time when DR.. Coke az
: piled to his son for an exchange. Tn
7 bishop considered his fathers applies
: ton at painful length, and finally d.
, clined, an the ground that his fathe
: had not received apostolic ordination
/, May the Lord forgive me-" exclain
ed the old man in sudden devoutnes
''for raising such fool" Half of til
/, children are members of the church
: in spite of the paternal minIstration
+. and example, and when asked abou
i, them, he is said to have explained tha
five of them are wise and five EpiscC
|; palians."
. In the new version, l may add, til
present arrangement of chapters an
verses CintrOdued in the middle of agci
: is dropped, and natural divisions int
: topics and paragraphs, are substitutes
In the revision of the Old TestameT
. the Psalms and other poems will be We
sified and arranged rVthmlc2llV