New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-01
OLD TESTAMENT REVISION
REARRANGEMENT OF THE BOOKS NEEDED.
WHAT Mr.. CHADWICK SAYS OF THE NEw OLD III
LAMENT OF CRITICISM

WHAT Mr.. CHADWICK SAYS OF THE NEw OLD IL -
LAMENT OF CRITICISM.
"Take il for all in alln said Mr.. Chadwick
in his sermon on The New Old Testament" in the Sec
ond Unitarian Church. in Brooklyn, yesterday, " the re-
vision must commend itself TO literal and honest minds
There are particulars in which the American version
much to be preferred Thousands OF Indifferent DUN
ders have been set right aud many not INDIFFERENT IL
here and there tho phrasIns seems ana Is ioss
happy IL is not you and and those who think with US
that need be troubled 1t only those who still imagine
they are dealing with supernatural book VINO VIII OK
perepce any loss For us the inspiring Is the most
inspired In the Bible or out OF IL.
"The Revision is indeed a new Old Testament pu'
there is new Old Testament which is Of vastly more
Significance While the work OF translation has peeh
going on these fifteen years, and for longer period
work of transpositon has been going on OF innhtely
more importance Books that appear as whoies' aAo
in the King James translation and the Revision nave
been shown to be the work or dlherent author''
and sometimes OF widely separated periods. But
~ the revlsers had begun to introduce the
clement Of criticism into their work, whero
could they have made stop The Old Testament inter-
ature U.s. for the part resumed under three &
In the new Old Testament of the critics tho Prophets
come first, the Law second aud the Psalms last Anu
this gives n OF literature whcn was
before battling mechanical riddle, VITAL ana oIgaio
unity. Once rightly classified the Oid 20
a progress from q savage worship ana inoranty 70 q
spiritual worship and q morality Oh almost 0nriS'
Mt Chadwick also said that there nothing aston;
shg or revolutionary in the outcome Of the work OF
the rcvsers But for every thoughtIu person ne w -,
infabllity attaching u any part OF tho bluc
which confronted the n, W revsers aud said
that the old Testament rcvisers had NOT had 10 aoa
manuscripts dat oil from the teuth and eleventh cenu
ries They did not regard the septuagnt transitTu,
although the Old Testament vas quoted 20 times III t nS
New and invariably from the septuaglht. ~
Paul's eighty -fonr quotations, seventy are eVluentl
from this. Nevertheless. tho reylser, nave pre,evt
another text from that preferred by the New
writers The various readings would have multiplied
with astonishing aud embarrassing rapdity u they naa
assumed that the critical faculty OF jesus anu ING w"
| Testament writers was worth considering.
| UNIVERsALIsT DOCTRINE STRENGTHENED
| "After fifteen years of scholarly effort" said
the Rev. Charles H. Eaton, Of the Church Of the Divine
Paternity, last evening. we have the Old Book en-
deared to thousands ~ human souls placed before us
new shape II is the Old Book, better than IL
| WAS OF old The progress OF language has emptied
many words their former meaning, ana the progress
of scriptral knowledge has made 1t possible to bring
out Gods meaning better than II could have been uOhc
by past reyisers For class people the new re-
is yet too conservative But Is nearer 10 GOu
TRUTH tOugh there changes yet 10 be made IN future
revsipns. ana, Tor so great an huvhcene 20 s"o
visors nave made we should all be thankful Inc most
important changes those which help to clear up
OLD doctrines. We find that the old Jews meant py the
word hell, burial place. no such an existence as INC
the ministers Of some denominations are teaehlng rom
their pulpts tonight based on THIS OH ana icoIeot
translation Yet this later Interpretation Oh such p1
has for yearsbeon taught by the Uhiyelsast OhuIcn,
whose ministers have been lhsIireu Dy som, so'ne
has presented this conclusion when Englsn
revisOrs have come TO accept lhcsoelhe
of physical resurrection OF the body after death mas
| also received mortal wound However men may say
the changes immateral, the doctrines remain Tue
same, these changes seem to me slgnclnt, INC new
revision may not become endeared TO the present GENERA
lion. but this Queen Victoria revision Will become the
Book of growing generations We have only done Tna.
| revision OF the OLD Luthcr BIple'