Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-29

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dered: "As the living Father sent ne, and
live because of the Father so he that eat
eth me shall live because OF me. Al ne
hra1ys vi Z. we find in the old text: r" For
.ha earth which drinketh in the rain that
coneth of upon it, and bringeth forth herbs
meet for them By whom 1t is dressed, re-
ceiyeth blessing from God" The preposl- |
ton by here is false translation of the |
Greek word, which properly means for |
whose sake" and is SO Translated III the new
version. the clause reading - bringing forth
fruits meet for them for whose sake 1t Is
dressed" At Luke XIII, 1, q very serious
mistake has been rectifed. III the old YER
sion the text stands: Lord remember me
when Thou CONTEST into Thy kingdom" The
true reading is: Lord. remember me when
thou CONTEST i'll thy kingdom" Propositions
have also been found to be mlstTanelated
when in composition with verbs. An In
stance of this occurs at Hebrews ". IA,
which reads in the authorized version:
'Seeing. then, that we have a great High
Priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus,
the Son of God. let us hold fast our pro-
fessiOnr This was determined to be an
impossible translation of the proposition
which was rendered Into" and the correct
reading, as given III the revision, is as fol-
lows: < Having, then. great High Priest,
who hath passed through the heavens"
OMISSIONS.
We have already enumerated some Of
these. The "doyology' of the Lords
Prayer is omitted; also the two verses about
the three heavenly witnesses (John V.
49, and the passage concerning the angel
troubling the waters OF the pool Of Bethesda,
and two long and important passages, Mark
al, 10 ha
reader Is referred in his standard Testament.
The omitted passage in Mark is wanting in
the two oldest MSS, and the style is not
that OF the author of Mark The passage in
John, concerning the woman taken in adul-
! terry, IS not found in any of the best uncial
Mss. nor in the ancient Yer6i0ns nor is
there evidence that it was known to Origen
| ChrysostOm and others of the early fathers
! Even many of the manuscri pts which do
| contain it have it marked as doubtful The
| texts in which it has come down to us vary
! greatly among themselves; it has no con-
nection with the context, and its STYLE differs
| totally from that of john. On the other
! hand, It is found in the ancient uncisl d
! (COdey Bezse): Jerome, in the fourth CEN
! turv, testifies that it existed in his DAYS, in
many manuscripts. both Greek and Latin.
Augustine, about the same date. charges
plunged it lest it should seem to condone sin :;
and according TO Eusebius, Papias, in the
early part of the second century, was famil-
lar with it. In this state of the evidence,
the reviewers have not felt justified in re-
jecting it from the text, but have inserted it
! in brackets,
AMENDMENTS or TRANSLATION.
The authorized version does not abound
il absolute misconceptions of the original
texts, bat there are some which have been
corrected in the revised version. We quote
a few of them here: In Matthew xiv &.
the authorized version says of the daughter
of Herodias that she asked for the Baptist ;
head, " being before instructed of her
mother" The revision rightly translates,
:: She being put forward by her mother
In Luke iii. %, instead of Jesus began
to be about thirty years of age" the re-
visers read: land Jesus himself, when he
began Ito teach) was about thirty years q.
age In the account of the TRANSPORTATION
in Luke tx, the thirty SECOND verse in the
common version quite misrepresents the
fact. Peter and his companions were
heavy with sleep, ''and when they were
awake they saw His glory whereas Luke
states the contrary, which the reviser5 have
given thuss Yet having remained awake,
they saw His glory" &c,
In john Y. I4-15, the reYisers restore the
connection between the verses which the
authorized version destroyed by the render
ing . | am the good shepherd, and know
my sheep aud am known of mine As the
Father knoweth me, even so knew / the
Father; and I lay down my life for the
sheep" Instead Of which the revision runs
thus: :" am the good shepherd, and
know mine own, and mine own know me-
even as the Father knOweth me and [ know
the Father; lay down. &c.
The REVISED translation of Acts XVI. %,
which the common version rendera Al
most thou persnadest me TO be a Christian,
has very different meaning correctly rem
dered with but little persuasion thor
wouldst fain make me Christian" Agrip
, pa was sarcastic. Another amendment i.
made in Hebrews XII 10: "These all died Il
the faith, not having received the promises
but having seen them afar off and were per
suaded of them and embraced thenl, en-;
confessed that they were strangers and pill
grims on the eart!l' The revisers give i
thus: ''Thesa all died in faith, moi liayin.
received tha promises, but having seen then
: : and greeted them from afaT and havinG
! confessed that they were strangers and Pill
grims on the earth"
| THE LITERARY STYLE
e OF the accepted version remains, upon tn
G whole, unchanged. The revisers have dis
[ turbed it as little as possible. Hence sucl
= forms as "hath, ''whiles," thoroughly,
! ''holpen," &c, have been retained, and tn
e ralatiye (which has been allowed to stand
e as III old English, when the antecedent is
g person. On the ether hand the revisea
q have assumed that an acchaism which ha
become obsolete, or has wholly or most,
changed its meaning, tends to impair tn
! sense, and should be replaced by a wor,
/ generally intelligihlo LET" now mean
:. ''to permit" but in fiomals l. 10; II
>. Thessalonians il 7, it means directly the OPP
posite-to hinder. Room" meaning t
! Us apartment" is used in Luke xiv
q 10, for It seal. Prevent" which nov
means to hinder" is used in MATTHEW
y xvii. %, in the sense of to anticipate. Sim
ilGriy the authorized version has "quick
q for '" living;" conversation" for :: citi
+ zanship:" Elimination for Judgment;
honest" for "honorable;" "afect" TO
> - court :" "allow" for approve; :" /" de
:: votion" for objects Of worship" SO 0
q archaic phrases. The revision has "B
- not anxious for the morrow" instead 0
a Take no thought" thus giving the ide
"a which was represented by g take thought
= at the date of the authorized version, bu