The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-03-10
Tho Revised New Testament.

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The New York O5seroer has an intere-st;nr
q ctrol The revised New Fest.,mtnl
is /. s;l,ilen pause in the pogress OF IT,. :
ion, it says. 1t WAS on the eve OF appearing. Tin
| work, completed, printed, bound. and sent gu
| to the press in England and to members of thu
revision committee in this country, suddenly
comes to stop. By some indiscretion or mis-
take, few specimens of TIE changes made by
the revisers appeared in the London Record
and excited considerable attention. They were
quite extensively copied here and elsewhere
The Record and other papers have been threat
ened with law suit for the violation of copy
| right. This unseemly act has justly excited
great indignation, because if the changes are
discreetly made, the sooner they are made the
better. If they are not dscreetly made, the
sooner they are suppressed, the better. The
Observer says, we meyer knew before how much
We gained by our independence of England
Otherwise we could not have cited text from
the revised Bible without first sending over to
England and getting PERMISSION from the uni
versities of Oxford and Cambridge. 1t appears
that the British committee of revision were
not required by appointment to submit their
work before publication to the conyocation,
but it is now intimidated that the revised New
Testament will be thus submitted and referred
to new committee, to report upon at the
meeting of convocation which is to be held in
May-three months hence, unto which time
the publication has been postponed. If the
convocation does not approve of the revision
Queen and Mr.. Gladstone may yet be called
on to decide whether the alterations of the old
version are right and wise. If the convocation
does not approve of the revision, and the
crown does affirm and adopt it then the new
revision will be the Queen Victoria version, as
the old is that of King James. The Observer
thinks that the general impression Is favora-
BILE 10 this revision, and adds: "Of one thing
we are assured, that the revision by the most
advanced scholarship of the age sustains every
doctrine of the common version, and leaves
the entire basis and structure of the religion OF
the Gospel fortified by the examination of
experts in England and America"
In this connection we give some of the COM
PARSONS as they appeared in the London
Record:
REVISED VERSION. COMMON VERSION.
Matthew 6: g. ID Matthew 6 /: 8. ID
Our Father which art Our Father which art
in heaven. Hallowed in heaven. Hallowed
be thy name. Thy be thy name. Thy
kingdom come Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be d lone, as in will be done in earth,
heaven, so on earth. as it is in heaven. Give
Give US this day our us this day our daily
daily bread. And for bread. And forg1v e
give us our debts, as us our debts. as we
we also haye forgiven forgive our debtors,
our debtors. And lead and lead us not into
US not into temptation, temptation, but deliver
but deliver us from the us from evil.
evil one.
Mark 8: SO, 81 Mark 8: SO 81
For what doth it profit For what shall it profit
a man, to gain the a man, if he shall gain
whole world, and for the whole world, and
felt his life? For what lose his own soul? Or
should man give in what shall a man give
exchange for his life? in exchange for his
soul?
Luke 16 :: 8, 9.-For Luke Is: s 9-For
the sons of this world the children of thi s
are for their own gen world are in their gen
Grafton wiser than the GRAFTON wiser than the
sons of light. And l children oflight. And
say unto you, Make to [ say unto you, Make
yourselves friends by to yourselves friends OF
means OF the mammOn the mammOn of I'M
of unrighteousn S righteousness that,
chat, when it shall fail, when we fail, they
they may receive you may receive you into
into the eternal taber- everlasting b a b i a
nacles. lions.
Acts Q: Ala d Acts 2 Z: 47.-AnG
the Lord added to them the Lord added to the
day by day those that church daily such as
were being saved. should be saved
Cor 1; IL 10 90 2 Cor. rs, 10, 90
But as God is faithful. But as God is true,ouI
our word toward you word toward you was
is not yea an hay. not yea and nay For
For the Son of God, the Son of God Jesus
Jesus Christ, who was Christ, who was
preached among you preached among you
by US, even by me and by US, even by me and
Silvanus and Timothy Sivanus and limo
was not yea and nay, theus, was not yea and
but in him yea. For nay, but in him was
how many soever be- yea. For all the prom
the promises of God in ises of God in him are
him is the yea where yea, and in him Amen,
fore also through him unto the glory of God
is the Amen, unto theIby us.
glory of God through
us.
Cor 4 6-Seeing Cor. 4: 6-For
it is God, that said, God who commanded
Light shall shine out the light to shine out
of darkness, who shin lof darkness, hath shin
ed in our hearts. ed in our hearts.
Philip 3: 90, 81 Philip 3: 20, 81
We wait for Saviour, From whence also we
the Lord Jesus Christ look for the Saviour,
who shall fas h o Il the Lord Jesus Christi
anew the body of our who shall change our
humiliation, b at it vile body, that it may
may be conformed to be fashioned like unto
the body of his glory. his glorious body.