Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-06-09

/ world, or the world OF the dead, and
the void 'Gehenna,' which means the
world Of torment Now, these two
words are translated alike; consequent
ly the vu- He'll occurs twice as often
as it doe d" the Greek. We all ex-
peci to - TO 'hades, or the realm OF
the deaG. Christ went to Hades, but
very few, hope, will 20 to the place
Of the damned. Now, | can illustrate
this ny calling your attention to the
weil-known passage in our version that
hell would not hold Christ, whereas
the original word is 'Hades. The
world Of the dead could not hold him.
He raised again, and the false render
ing has passed into the Apostles Greed
and, whereas Christ did not descend
into He'll, it ought to be into Hades.
We do not know whether He ever de-
scended into He'll at all, but He did
ascend to Paradise, for He says: This
day you shall be with Me in Paradise.
You can not include Paradise IN He'll.
In the New Testament we meet with
the word devil The Bible knows only
one devil, but great many evil spir-
Its known as demons. That distinction
is clearly made in Greek. The 'Ober-
os devil, which comes from the Greek,
refers to only one Prince of,Darkness.
But when there as in the New Tes-
lament, several spoken of, where the
man was possessed of devils, and
speaks of the casting out of devils, &c,
the word demon os evil spirit ought to
be substituted, for that is the word
which is used in Greek, and has a very
different meaning from the one that is
used. Then, in the Apochalypse you
often read Of the four brases around
the throne, and also of the beast from
the abyss. The Greek uses very diff
ferent term. The four living creatures
around the throne represented the
whole creation and the glory of God =,
and the beast from the abyss is the anti
Christian power, Now, in the second
instance, the word beast is very prop
er translation, but in the other case it
is very improper word, and the word
creature ought to be restored as it is
now.
Then, in the next place, as regards
the arrangement of the Bible. You
know our Bible is cut up into chapters
and the chapters into verses, and some
times this is very injurious to the sense.
What ought to be separated is COM
bined, and very often chapter ends in
the middle of section or includes two
sections. So with regard to the verses.
Now these are not arrangements of the
Apostles, for they wrote in one contin-
uous line, and they made no punctua-
tion at all. The chapter edition was
introduced in the thirteenth century
by one Of the Cardinals, and tie verse
arrangement in the sixteenth century
by Partisan publisher. Now you find
what belongs together is printed to-
gether and what is poetry is printed
as poetry,a as we do in our hymn books,
so that we can distinguish, the prose
from poetry, and at the same time on
the margin of the new are indicated the
verses of the old Then the italics
have been correctly introduced. You
know they are not in The original at all
They are an Interpolation of the trans
lation, Often they are entirely Use
less, and not in few cases they mar
the beauty and force of the original.
Now this work is being completed af-
ter ten years of interrupted labor, and
l verify believe, as much as | believe
in my own existence, that the hand of
God has been in it from its beginning
to its close. No being in the world |
could have brought about such CO.
operation but the Heavenly Father by
His goodness. English christianity is
divided into sects, and nothing can
make them cooperate higher than
human power especially in such
work. You know how many preju-
dices divide denomination from de-
1t will give our Bible a
new lease for life, for an indefinite
period, and every prospect is at hand
that this will be the common standard
adopted before long by all denomina-
tions. OF course that belongs to you.
The Committee have done their work
as speedily as they could. The Old
Testament Company hasn't finished its
task yet, and will require three more
years to complete its work. The New
Testament Company has finished its
work and retlres from the field, and it
is for you, as well as for congregations
Of the churches that use our Bibles, to
say whether that new revision shall
take the place of the old, or to be used
of and together with the old
revision, and only as commentary up
on it, making palmer the obscurer
points. 1t has been published in every
shape and form, and republished to
suit all tastes in all forms. 1t is per-
fectly marvellous the success it has had.
1t is so phenomenal that it is one Of
the greatest arguments to my mind,
proving the truth of Christianity
More than two million copies were sold
the second day after its publication,
and that includes five hundred thou
sand which were disposed of on this
side of the water Since that time
half o dozen American reprints have
been announced Some of them have