, 1881-06-29

reCtl0n IN WnICE The weight Oh SCnOldfsutpA
decidedly ~inclines. is oil that the Revisio a
Committee had to consider. and there is no
manner Of doubt, we imagine, that they have
decided that question rightly. We observe.
that the American Committee Of Revision
support the English Committee in this great
change.
Further, the changes made by the Revision
Committee appear to US. as Q general rule, not
only necessary in substance, but unobtrusive
and modest in form though in some cases, as
in the translation Of the song of the angels
(Luke, ii. ~, we think the form adopted need
iessly awkward and unFhythmical. For the
most part, howeVe", it is not so. There is
nothing but good in the change, "Teke heed
tat you do not your Righteousness before men,
to be seen of them,"-A much larger injunction
than the one given ia our Authorised Version,
where the word for "righteousness'' is mis-.
translated aims" Tiers is nothing but good
in the change made in the passage in ST.
Marks G ,spel ab tut the unforgiveu sin, Who
soever shall blasphsme against the Holy
Spil it hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of
an eternal SIM instead of "is in danger of an
eternal damnation," which entirely %misrspre
sents The original. There is nothing but good
in the interpolated italic words IN the passage
concerning The things which defle a man,
a passage almost invariably misunderstood by
those WHO do not know the Greek, as it ap.
pears in the Authorised Version. The Revi-
sim Committee have made it perfectly clear
what the Creek really means. "This he said
making all meats clean,'' whereas, as ordinari.
" misunder TODD, the words " purging all
meats" are not at all apprehended as cow eying
that our Lord, in these words, denied all toe
f"anciful distinctions between clean and ~unclean
food. Again, there is nothing but good in the
remarkable change made in the translation of
the story ST. Mark, tx. 23b of this fathers ap-
peal for his child, " II thou canst do anything,
have compassion on us and help us And Jesus
said unto him, IF thou caust All things are
pc sihle to him that beIievetb,' "-where the
real drift. of course, is, aYou say eff thou
caust' But it is In you, and not in me, in
your faith, and not in my power, that the def
cheney is likely to be-" Again, how character
Isle a touch is added to ST. Marks account of
the rich young mans application to our Lord,
and the suggestion that he should sell what he
has aud como and follow Jesus. Here the
translat IRIS give Us, +" But his oountenancs fell
at the saying, and he went away sorrowful, for
he was one that had great POSSESSIONS" The
Authorised Version here loses entirely one of
the peculiar characteristics of St. Marks Cos
pel-the frequent touches derived apparently
flon an eye witness. Or again, where the
translators give Us, in the conversation at the
Last Supper,-"And whittier I go, ye know
Un6 WdyJ Oy way VI tIausId' lug Jus WOSb
authoritative of the various t4xts, instead of,
"Wbi'her [ 90 ye know and the way ye know"
they seem to us to make a vast Improvement in
tae ssrsp. Olrist did not msan, We believe,
that his disciples knew whittier he was going,
but only that they knew the way thitber, which
he explains directly after, by saying that he
himself IS that way. They knew the path, and
not the goal. To say that they knew the goal
as well as the path was apparently untrue, as
the bewilderment of the Disciples showed.
Thomas's answer, "Lord, We know not whittier
thou goest, how know we the way, seems to US
far more Ineligible on the assumption that
Christ had asserted only that they knew the
way, than it would be on the assumption that
be had asserted also their knowledge of the
goal. Thomas thought it essential to their
knowledge of the way that they should know
the goal our Lord ~oorreots him, aud says
that life 10 him, though it will lead them
where he is going, is possible aoithout knowing
to what sort of world that life will ulti.
mately introduce them. Or to take a passage
from. quite another region of the New Testai
ment, it seems to US a very great Improvement
to translate St. Paups words /. Oor, xv., 34l.
"Awake-up righteously, and sin NOT, for some
have no knowledge Of God I speak this
to move you to shame )" instead of, "Awake to
righteousness, aud sin not; for some have not
the knowledge of God: l speak this to your
shame" Mo- only Is this a more correct trans.
Istion of tha 4raak. Init If II Ia mu,h mora in