New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-31

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from one or two. The Revisers say:
Mother do men light lamp and put II under IN.
bushe but on the stand. aud II shneth AL that are
Does the sentence gain or lose by putting CLAIMS
for candle" stand" for "candlcstick,1 ana
"shineth" for "giveth light y Or by reading
the" bushel for "a" busheli And IL It gained
does the gain outweigh the loss the disturbance
the breaking up Of old associations with the ola
form J The rendering may DO closer but it "a NOT
truer. The old text has, Therefore, II thou brin.
thy gift; the new, III therefore, thou art oferins
the gift And who does not see how weak IA tbis
versions Swear not at all neither by the heaven.
for it Is the throne Of God nor By the earth for n
is the footsool Of his feet compared with the old,
Swear not at all neither by heaven for it Is loda
throne, nor by the EARTH for it is his footstooD Ths
meaning remains, nothing is taken away added,
but the rhythm and music of the sentence hays
vanished. Birds OF the heavens" (which
is not English at ALI replaces fowls Of
the air." and we are to ask heno.
forth, Which of you, by being anxiouA
can add one cubit unto his stature; which Is udi-
erons. Let US take Paul to the Corinthians. who
has always said:
lie hath put all things under His feet But when Tie
sat al things are put under Him. IL is manifest tina,
when all things shall be subiued unto Him, then shall
things under HIM.
The revisers say:
lie put all things IN subsection under His feet But
when He saith all things put in subsection, 1t is
Hest that He Is excepted who did subject all things unto
linn And when all things have been subjected unto
Him. then shall the son also himself subjected to Him
that did subject all things unto Him.
That may be more accurate, though do not be-
lieve II is, but if you want your teeth set on edge
you have only to read it aloud. In the thirteenth
chapter Of the Same epistle it is q shock 10
find, but the charity which never faieth,
and which used TO abide with faith and hope has
failed now, and abides no longer, but has given
place TO love" The rcvisers excepted, there il
surely no living Englishman or American to whom
" love IN this passage so much or comes 20
near TO what the apostle meant as the familiar and
hallowed charity" IL is vanda hand which
wrrnches away such words from their context and
il * the very purism of pedantry to substitute one
FOR the other.
THE AMERICAN APPENDIX.
One would ike to be able to say that the American
Committee hal stood ont against the worst Of these
changes. But the American Committee seem TO
have been more revolutionary than their English
colleagues They have put on record a statement Of
principles and points as 10 which they differed from
the majority, and this they have had published at
tn end of the revised version as a sort of protest
against the decision TO which they had TO SUBJ
init II is fair to infer from this that they took
very radical views indeed of what was permissible
In the way of alterations. An example OF two will
suffice TO show how much stronger in their
minds was the sp rt of limo, alton than the spirit Of
reverence for the old version. They proposed that
the word - testament be everywhere changed to
" covenant without alternate in the marginl
except in Hebrews tx. 1917. They would have
struck out saint from the title and head lines Il
the Gospels, aud "Apostler from the Pauline
Epistlcs. For " Holy Ghost - they wonld always
read " Holy Spirit" For tempt" and tempta-
ton, '"try.7 or &" make trial Of" 4" trial would
be substituted. wherever entcement TO what is
wrong is not evidently spoken Of. They would cast
oGt devils and bring in demons" and for
possessed with devil" give MS demoniac," or
possessed with demon" And they would sub
s,itufe modern forms Of speech for the following
archaIsms. viz: who or" that for" which when
used of persons arc for d" he "in the present indca
tive; know" knew" for /" wot" "wert y; drag
OF drag away" for hale"
These proposals cover whole classes of passages
Anybody may apply them for himself and see how
he likes the effect of them. But the Americans add
long lists Of specific notifications they would have
made If they could. In Luke Xxx, q. instead Of
o." Shew me penny; whose image and superscnption
hath il ;" our hteral-minded countryInen would say
"Show me "A denariusv What would the unliteral
and unettered make of that, / wonderf 10
Luke tx, II. they urge for victuals" 10
read provisions" In John iv, o. "tlns NY JOY
therefore is fulfilled" is TO become " this my JOY
Therefore is made full" Their delicate modern
stomachs are turned by the physical speaking
of King Jamcs's divines in John vii, 3s He that
bclieyrth on me. the scripture hath said, out Of
ms belly shall flow rivers of living water" and out
of his belly" is refined into the squeamlsh weakness
of " from within him. 1t is perhaps, n still inor
astonishing evidence of delicacy that in John XXI,
7. where Simon Peter /" girt his fishers coat unto
him for he was naked. and did cast himself into
the sea- the Americans would add in the margin,
"Or had on his undergament only"
In l. Corinthians w., p, spirit Of meekn"ss,' We
are to rad spirit of genteness," if that helps any,
body. while in XII. ~ of the epistle. the hatns
intelligence of the American reader is TO he helped
by reading " in an unworthy manner for the abso-
lutc "unworthily." In similar spirit :hc familiar
ami heretofore sufficiently Ineligible "eyil COM
muncaiions corrupt good Manners altered in the
revised version To "eyil company doth corrupt good
Manners is to be still further transformed into
"evil companionships corrupt good noral>." And
there are many other instances not less hagrant
which have not time 10 quote.
Some scores of other distressing mutatons and
tricks of fancifu transformation which ! had
marked for comment pass over. You will have the
book long before this letter can reach you and IN
strictuess have only to give an account Of English
opinion about it. will give one which represents
many The chief Conservative journal of the King
dom sums up in its usual energetic way what every
body is thinking and saying. Ii declares that tho
impression in the public mind is one of disappoint-
ment and dissatisfaction; that the system on which
the Rcyscrs have acted altogether erroneous aha
deplorable, and that the revision rs whole Is
rash and rec ess attempt shake the noble growth
of centuries by attempting to harmonic it with the
correctness of selfopnonated scholarship. or to
r,ci,late il by the doubtful standard of taste