The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-21
BRoUHT INTO CAMP.
Some Revised Scripture.

LONDON, May 16.-Amon9 the lighter
touches of the revision of the Old Tesla
ment are these that occur in well known
passages, which are here given as re-
VIsed: "But know that my Redeemer
lives, and that he shall stand at the last
upon the earth, and after my skin has
been thus destroyed yet from my flesh
shall see God. shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold and not an
other" Another well known passage
in Ecclesiastes becomes, Remember
also thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, or ever the evil day come or the
year draw nigh when thou shalt say,
have no pleasure In them" The change
here Is, remember also" for remember
now" with another variation, cor ever
the evil days come" for while the evil
days come not" The alterations in the
case of Genesis has already been
given and for the sake of comparison the
concluding verses from the old tes-
ament may be extracted from each YER
sion. The authorized runs thus. "Be-
hold, l will send you Elijah, the
prophet, before the comming OF the great
and dreadful day of the Lord, and He
shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children
to their fathers, lest l come and smite
the earth with q curse" The revised
renders 1t: Behold, will send you
Elijah, the prophet, before the great and
dreadful day of the Lord come, and he
shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children and the heart of the children to
the fathers Among the min
or chages may be quoted
"The foolish scorn the guilt
offering tor the fools make q mock at
n;w, u l..
only ga God" not "gods" ascending. In
Proverbs "haughty person" becomes
"a worthless person" "Wine 10 a
mocker, strong drink is raging" be
comes, "Wlne is mocker. strong drink
a crawler." In Daniel, "Astonled tor a
while" is used instead of "Astonied for
one hour" The substitution of modern
words for Archaic expressions has only
taken place where the word was not only
absolete. but to the public unintelligi-
BILE. "Coat of mail" for instance is sub
stItuted for "brigadine." In Jeremiah
lI-3, where the Almighty promises to
raise an army against Babylon and
against him that lifts himself up in his
brigandine. For the word .'cockatrIce''
there is given "Bssilisk." with ladder"
as the marginal alternative. The VIM
pies and the crisping pins mentioned in
"Emerods," l Samuel v..6 makes way
for "Hemorrhoids. Hsbergon is render
ed in Exodus xviii, "coas OF mall" and
in Job xl.-5, as the painted shaft. The
connection of America with the revIs-
ION remains TO be noted, it is explained
as follows:
In the preface the revisers had already
made some progress and had in fact
gone twice through the Pentateuch be-
fore they secured the cooperation OF
the American Old Testament's revision
company. The first revision OF the sew
eral books was submitted to the consid
Grafton of the American revisers, and
except in the case of the Pentateuch, the
English company had the benefit of the
criticisms and suggestions before they
proceed to the second revision. This
second revision was in Q like manner
forwarded to the Americans, and the
latest thoughts of the American revisers
were in the hands of the English CON-
psny at their final review. In every in
stance the suggestions from the Ameri-
can revisers were treated with the same
consideration IS those of the
members of the English company,
and were adopted or rejected
on their merits. The preface adds that
those points on which there was ulti-
mate disagreement, were placed on
record in the appendix, filling sixteen
pages. The amendatIoas so recorded
are chiefly directed towards undermining
the TRANSLATION by omission of obsolete
forms, both of language and spelling.
The Daily News says: The revisers
have erred if they have erred at all, on
the side of obstinate conservatism rather
than on the side of rash innovation.
Atheneum says: The revision is liter
ally q success. There are no pretensions
to scholarly completeness, and practi-
cally no alterations in texture.
CHOLERA DISAPPEARING.
MADRID, May 16.-Over 400 persons
have been inoculated with cholera
microbes by DR.. Ferran in the province
Valencia, as preventative OF the disease
The new system is said to be entirely
successful. and the epidemic is disap-
pearing-
KoMARoFF's SWORD.
ST.. PErERsBURG. May 16.-The car
has sent Gen. Komaroff q Sword of
honor" The hilt of the sword is gold