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THE REvIsERs' WORK.


porated In the Revised Edition of the
Old Testament-A Heavy Demand for
the Work.
LONDON, May l7.-Among the lighter
touches OF the revision of the Old Tesla
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 see God, whom shall see for my
self and mine eyes shall behold and not
another"
Another well-known passage In Ecclesi.
astes becomes: "Remember also thy Gre
ator in the days of thy youth, or ever the
evil day come, or the years draw nigh
when thou shalt say, have no pleasure
an them" The change here is "remem-
Der alsO," for remember now;" with an
other variant, cor ever the evil days
Gomez for "while the evil days came
notn 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
may be extracted from each YER
sion. The authorized runs thus: "Be-
hold, win send you Elijah, the prophet,
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
dren and the heart of the children to
their fathers, lest come and smite the
earth with 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 i.,a,.,. Odd. ,.,.-..,, ,t..J....
The witch of Endor now sees only "a
God" not goods" ascending. In Pro-
verbs, 'naughty person" becomes ga
worthless person."
"Wine is mocker, strong drink is
raging" becomes HWine is a. mocker,
strong drink q brawler;" in Daniel, Gas
tonshed for awhile" is used instead of
''Astonished for one hour" ..,.s. ..
The substitution of modern words for
Archaic expressions has only taken place
where the word was not only obsolete,
but to the public unntelligible. "Coat
of mall" for instance, is substituted for
"brigandine," in jeremiah Ii 8, where
the Almighty promis to raise an army
against Babylon, "and against him that
lifteth himself up in his brigandine. !"
For the word e'cockatrice," there is given
''basillisk," with "adder'' as the margin
al alternative. "The wimples and the
crisping-pns," mentioned In Isaiah Ill %,
have altogether disappeared. "Eme.
rods" |. Samuel 6, makes way for
1'humors." "Habergeou" is rendered in
Exodus xviii as "coat of mall" and in
Job xii as "the pointed shaft"
AMERICAN WORK.
The connection of America with the
revision remains to be noted 1t Is ex
Ulained 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 Old-Testament
Revision Company. The first revision OF
the several books was submitted to the
consideration OF the American revisers,
aud 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 like
4nanner forwarded to Amer.
dca, and the latest thoughts
of the American revisers were in the
hands OF the English company at their
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 or
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 emendations so recorded are
chiefly directed toward undermining the
translation by the omission OF obsolete
forms, both of the language and spelling
CONSERVATISM.
The Daily Net1S says: "The reviser'
nave erred, if they have erred at all, oil
the side Of obstinate conservatism ratheI
than on the side Of rash Innovation
The Atheneun says: "The revision is
literary success. There are no preten
sions to scholarly completeness, ant
practically no alterations in the texture
The revisers can be congratulated in tn
wisdom of their decision on declining Il
make new text OF old as the other com
pany did with the New Testament"
HEAVY DEMAND.
The rush for press and authentic copie
of the revised Old Testament is unprece
denied in England. ...g E
The Pail Mall Gazette states that tn
London correspondent of great New
York newspaper offered $500 for simpl
a sight of an advance copy of the revise
Old Testament at one of the Universit
publishing houses. The officers havin
the printing in charge were obdurate !
refusing to accede to the correspondent
obstinate request. The correspondent
the Gazette says, was authorised by hi
paper to spend $4,000 in telegraphin
the main features of the new version
rT,to Ordarc for tho iSSup of the ri