The Osceola times., 1885-05-23
THE REVIsERs' WORK.

Samples of . Few of the Changes Made
In the Authorized Version and Incor-
porated in the Revised Edition Of the
Old Tsstament-A Heavy Demand for
the Work.
LONDON, May l7.-Among the lighter
touches Of the revision Of the Old Testa-
ment are those that occur In the we'll
known passage which is here given as re-
vised; "But know that my Redeemer
liveth and that He shall stand up at the
last upon the earth and after my skin has
been thus destroyed yet from my flesh
shall l see God, whom shall see for my
self and mine eyes shall behold and not
another"
Another well.known passage In Ecclesl.
astes becomes: "Remember also thy ere.
ator in the days Of thy youth, or ever the
evil day cone, or the years draw nigh
when thou shalt say, have no pleasure
IN them" The change here is "remem-
Der also," for remember now" with an
other variant, "or ever the evil days
come" for "while the evil days came
not" The alterations In the case Of
Genesis have already been given, and for
the sake of comparison the two conclud-
ing verses from the Old Testament
NAV be extracted from each YER
sion. The authorized runs thus: "Bc-
before the coming Of the great and dread
full day OF the Lord; and he shall turn
the heart OF the fathers to the chill
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their fathers, lest come and smite the
earth with q curse" The revised rend-
ers it: "Behold, will send you Elijah,
the prophet, before the great and dread
full day OF the Lord comes and he shall
turn the heart Of the fathers to the chill
dren, and the heart Of the children to
the fathers"
Among the minor changes may be
quoted; "The foolish scorned the guilt
offering, for the fools make mock at
SIM"
The witch OF Endor now sees only "a
God" not goods" ascending. In Pro-
verbs, . "naughty person" becomes "a
worthless person."
"Wine is Q mocker, strong drink Is
raging" becomes Swine is a mocker,
strong drink q brswler;" in Daniel, CAS-
tonshed for awhile" Is used instead Of
"Astonished for one hour"
The substitution of modern words for
| Archaic expressions has only taken place
where the word was not only obsolete,
but TO the public unintelligible. "Coat
| OF mail," for instance, 10 substituted for
"brigsndlne," In Jeremiah II 3, where
the Almighty prom ises to raise an armv
against Babylon, land against him that
lifteth himself up in his brigandine.
For the word "cockatrlce," there Is given
'basillisk," with "adder" as the margin
| al alternative. "The wimples and the
crisping- pins" mentioned In Isaiah Ill 20,
have altogether disappeared. "Eme.
| rods" I. Samuel 6, makes way for
"humors." "Habergeon" is rendered In
Exodus xviii as "coat OF mail," and in
Job xii as "the pointed shaft"
AMERICAN WORK.
The connection of America with the
revision remains to be noted 1t Is ex :
planned as follows In the preface; The
revisers had already made some progress
and had In fact gone twice through the
Pentateuch before they secured the CO.
operation OF the American ld-Testament
Revision Company. The 6rst revision of
consideration OF the American revisers,
and except in the case OF the Pentateuch,
the English company had the benefit OF
their criticisms and suggestions before
they proceeded to the second revision.
This second revision was In a like
manner forwarded to Amer
lea, and the latest thoughts
of the American revisers were In the
h.r - hA oh he t.
final review. In every instance the sug-
gestions from the American revisers were
treated with the same consideration as
those from the members OF the English
company and were adopted or rejected on
their merits. The preface adds that those
points on which there was ultimate dis
agreement are placed on record In the
appendix, filling sixteen pages. The
American emendatious SO recorded are
chiefly directed toward undermining the
translation by the omission Of obsolete
forms, both of the language and spelling.
CONSERVATISM.
The Daily Netos says: "The revisers
have erred, IL they have erred at all, on
| the side of obstinate conservatism rather
than on the side OF rash innovation" I"
The Atheneum says: "The revision is q
literary success. There are no preten-
sions TO scholarly completeness, and
practically no alterations In the texture.
The revisers can be congratulated In the
wisdom OF their decision on declining to
make new text OF old as the other CON-
pany did with the New Testament"
HEAVY DEMAND.
The rush for press and authentic copies
OF the revised Old Testament Is unprece-
dented In England.
The Pail Mall Gazette states that the
London correspondent of great New
York newspaper offered $500 for simply
sight of an advance copy Of the revised
Old Testament at one OF the University
publishing houses. The officers having
the printing in charge were obdurate In
refusing to accede to the correspondents
obstinate request. The correspondent,
the Gazette says, was authorized by his
paper to spend $4,000 In telegraphing
the main features OF the new version.
The first orders for the issue Of the re.
vision amounts to over 200, 900 copies