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.EMEN DING THE SCRIPTURES.
The New Revision Of the Old Testament
Finally Given to the Waiting Public
in London.

~ k1nauy Given to the Waiting Public
= HE Is in London. 4
synopsis Of Changes Made in the Old Familiar
Text, and q Sketch Of the Work Of
s. Revision.
The New Old Testament. =.
LONDON, May 15.-Copies Of the revised
version Of the Old Testament were given to
the newspapers at midnight last night All
the papers this morning contained extracts
from the work The Times says:
Finally an international work Of fourteen
Of the New: Testament was issued in May. 1881,
and now the revised Old Testament will soon
be published IN all parts Of the English-speak-
svept in the history OF the English Bible since
The publication OF the King James translation in
1911. The success Of the Old Testament may
more than million copies were sold on the day
Of publication, and more than three million
Of copies before the CLOSE Of the years but 1t will
severely criticised for 1t involves no changes Of
the Hebrew text, no older manuscripts than the
Gasorettc having been discovered, and the 1diom
served ont Of regard Tor the conservative
feeling OF the church in its attachment for the
LANGUAGE Of the old version. All errors of trans
revision will be pronounced byevery competent
Bible reader to be q very great Improvement. 1t
presents the results Of the combined labor Of a
scholars OF England and the United States, most
Of them professors of Hebrew In universities
and seminaries II has, moreover, the advant-
ms
knd antiquities, all Of which were but imper-
tectly understood by the forty sevon translators
Of King James. The new version Is not a good
| version In the place Of bad one, but great
Improvement Of a good version. Tho movement
convocation of Canterbury, the mother church
Of Anglo Saxon Christendom, May "a, 1870, by
the adoption Of tho following resolutions:
- THE FIRST STEPS. n NJ IA = ~
That 1t Is desirable that revision of the
! authorized version Of the Holy Scripture
be undertaken: that the revision be so con-
tnRs and such emendations as it may be found
necessary to insert In the text Of the authorized
version; that we do not contemplate any new
language, except where, in the 'j1d gment Of the
most competent scholars, such change Is neces-
sary; that In such necessary changes the style Of
closely followed; that 1t is desirable that the
| conyocat1on should nominate body Of its own
members to undertake the work Of revision who
shall be at liberty to invite the co-operation Of
any eminent for scholarship to whatever nation
OF religious body they may belong" Steps
toward the formation OF an American committee
the organization of the English committees, The
first meeting of the New Testament committee
In ENGLAND was held June 22ss 1870. On the 7th
vocation voted to- invite cooperation Of
| some American divines, and to Bishop Wilber-
force and Dean Stanley was assigned This task.
men who were fitted for. the work, and were
likely to be REGARDED rs authorities in biblical
learning by the American public, and the sub
Dean Stanley as representing the English body.
few months later. On. Jan. 4 ] 81 1871, Dean
Stanley y wrote to pr. schan. who was in the
facilitating communication between the English
and American divines and requesting Kim to
present the matter to Bishop Potter of New
York. representing the Protestant Episcopal
church and arrange q mode Of Evaporation. On
the same subject Bishop Wilberforce addressed
two letters to Bishop Potter, which were sub
That body decided to take no official part in the
work. but eftindivfdual members free to act as
they might. Final arrang dement's for the American
commission were not made until the summer OF
1877. In the autumn the commission began its
work. Though nearly two years later than the
English companies In beginning the work, they
passed forward with such1 activity that they
were enabled to complete it temporaleously
" 18th their English brethern. ~ q 50 q 81 n
TEE BOOK ITSELF. lHs5
Tbs Bible appears bound with the New Tesla.
ment. The preface opens with o statement OF
the general principles on which the revision has
been conducted, The reyisers have borne in
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but to revise that already existing, and have de.
parted from it only when 1t disagreed with tho
translators Of ISL upon tho meaning Of o word
or sentence. The terms OF natural history are
only changed when it is certain that the author
lied version is Incorrect. Where it is doubtful,
OF there is an alternative; the rendering is
given on the margin. In some words OF
frequent occurrence the authorized version
being either inadequate or inconsistent, changes
have been introduced with as much uniformity
as practicable. For instance: Tabernacle Of
The congregation has been everywhere changed
TO tent OF meeting" In regard to the word
Jehovah. the usage: of the authorized version
ls followed, the revisers not thinking it advis-
able TO insert 1t uniformity in place Of Lord
God. which, when printed in small capitals,
represent the words substituted by Jewish Gus
tom for thd infalable name of technical terms
from the Hebrew, or, in three seem to have
been generally introduced. The word q Grove"
SHdres tsxyill has been replaced BY -Ashera
In the peetical books "shool" replaces hell, :
which has been. changed in prose passages TO
the grove e. and the pit. with -sheol- IN the
preface IF it could be taken in its original sense
rs used In the creed, would be q fairly ADEQUATE
equivalent for the Hebrew word. but it is SO
commonly understood as the place of torment
table In isaiah XIV = w her
1 ssSe II as ors se is Is G s
.sheol' in the margin. Abaddon,' which has
hitherto been known to English readers of the
Bible only from the New Testament Rev. il ~.
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lob and twice in Proverbs. The term 8
4 -, - ~ MEAT OFFERING, =. II Y
has been changed into meal Offering, the former
Term having ceased to be the general name for
i III food. A new plural-peoples been in
srodnced, although sometimes this becomes
Genttles when the contrast to the chosen peo-
pie Is marked. All headings OF chapters nave
been dropped, as in the revised New Testament
/ Ind the text has been divided into paragraphs.
/ bnt the old chapter and verse divisions have
4 reference. By this means the reVisers have been
sna6led9 70 lre1ofn psalm < to psalm tx, and
| psalm Kill to psalm xii, and to begin
lsaih LII at chapter lii, verse 10: The several
breaks of line between the verses This ex-
4 pcdient has enabled the revisers to make use of
the dialogue form, and to show the dramatic
I which, for example, is divided into It seven
I Ipeeches The Psalms are definitely divided into
/ I've books the last four beginning respectively
It Eli xiii. &c and cytt striking improve
poeticai form. This has been done In the Psalms
Proverbs, Job and the canticles, but the Prophets
have been left IN prose. however passionate their
1 Noses, Deborah and Hannah: the psalm Of Jonah
md Habakkuk, and Davidis Lament y in
second Samuel appear in yerstfed ballad.
ittn upon Gideon, is Indicated 81 its verse
Il sharapter. 30 also Is the Triumphant cry Of
Danson Judges sxy., 16.1 Examination OF the
more familiar passages and phrases disclosed
aousehold words. The old literary form has
been held sacred, and the Tevtsers cannot be
4 charged with any pedantic straintng after the
II the scripture have escaped untouched. The
goat; he does 50 for AzazeL The summary 81 So
s54SF5S EACH DAYS WORK AT THE CREATION sf
aow runs according to the formula And there
vas evening and there was marning one day::-
| there was evening and there was morning q
\ second day. third day, and 90 on. giving q