Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-28

i assertion OF the immortality OF the soul
but says nothing whatever OF the resur
reetion of the body.
| The oft quoted verse 35, chapter XXI
of Job, is thus rendered:
Oh, that had one 10 hear moi
| DO, hero IL my signature; lot the Almighty
| answer ine;)
And that had tic indictment which my ad
yersary hath wrttcniH
job il 80 conscious of his innocence
TINT he eagerly desires TO see the charg'
brought against him. So far from shun
ming il as cause of shame, he would, ~
| he says in verse SO, bear il in triumph Of
that which was TO him crown of honor
In Psalms, XVI, 10, the godly man sayi
that his soul will not be left to Sheol
i. g., the place of the departed, which is
clearer and more faithful than the Gin
hell of the common version.
| The Psalms, XIX, Ia, instead of Like
/ sheep they are laid in the grave, death
shall feed on them" we have the vivid
image,
"They are appointed as n flock for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd"
In Psalms xo., IL, "Who knoweth the
to-" tSe., is thus made clear
| ''Who knoweth the power of thine anger,
And thy wrath according 10 the fear that Il
due unto thoe?"
Psalms xoIx., 8. "Thou forgavest them
though thou tookest vengeance of their
inventions. The last word is properly
changed to ''doings.n In o., 3, sit is he
that hath made us, and not we ourselves"
the latter clause il, according TO another
| and better reading of the Hebrew text,
| made land we are his; !" OK, 3, "Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy
power" becomes "thy people shall offer
themselves willingly in the day." &C.,
which is what the Hebrew unquestionabiy
means.
Psalms, cxIr, s; "a good man sheweth
favor and lendeth" is made ''Nell is it
with the man that dcaleth graciously and
lendeth."
Psalms, oxII, 113: 81 hate vain
thoughts" is made II hate them that are
of double mind"
Verse 1G0: "rhy word is true from the
beginning" becomes "'rhe sum of thy
words il TRUTH
Verse 165, which says of them that
love the divine law nothing shall offend
them," becomes, "They shall have none
occasion of stumbling"
In the prose form in the eprophetical books,
except in those cases where the poetic
form and spirit plainly contrast with that
which precedes and follows-e. g., the
prayer of Jonah and the sublime ode in
the third chapter of IIabakkuk, and the
whole of the Lamentations of Jeremiah
which are evidently of IL lyric character.
The division into paragraphs is suggested
either by the short titles given the text,
rs in Isaiah, XXI, IL, Is, where ''rhr
burden of Dumah" and "fhe I,lrdcn
upon Arabia" obviously imply the transi-
tion of II new theme, or by the internal
structure to other parts where the
prophet passes from one subject to
another. The christology of the Old
Testament is scarcely changed.
The crucial passage Qsaiah, W., 14),
"Behold virgin shall conceive and bear
n son." remains unchanged, except TINT
the margin suggests, "The virgin is with
child and beareth." Isaiah, xL., A, "The
voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
prepare ye the way of the Lord" is
changed TO read, "I,he voice of one that
crieth, prepare ye in the Wilderness the
way Of the Lord" TX, 5, "Evory
battle of The warrior is with confused
noise and garments rolled in blood but
this shall be with burning and fuel of
fire. is changed for tho better, ''For all
the armor of the armed man in the
tulnult, and the garments rolled in blood,
shall be for burning, for the fuel
of fire." In the LII. chapter the revision
removes the confusion of lenses
in verses 2, 3, as ':He shutA grow up !"
"when we shall see him y "IIe is
despised and rejected The correction
of these makes the description more cor
rect and impressive, as one continuous
picture of lowliness and rejection. In
verse 3, instead of "We hid ms it were
our faces from Him." there is the exacter
rendering, "As one from whom men hide
their face, He was despiscd," &c. The
difficult eighth verse, "lle was taken from
prison and from judgement /; and who
shall declare his generation" is made
palmer by rendering by oppres-
sion and Judgment he WAS taken
away: and who consideretli His genera
tion2" In LIv. s, In little wrath hid
my face from thee" becomes "In over
flowing wrath hid my face" &C., thus
making IL stronger contrast with the kind
ness mentioned in the next clause. In v.
l2 the promise to Zion is not windows
of agate" but "pinnacles of rubies.n
In LvI. 10, IL, the comparison of Israel's
rulers to dumb, indolent, greedy dogs,
and to faithless shepherds, is brought out
much more clearly. The indignant ques-
ton of Jehovah at offerings made to idols
(Lvu. g., "Should receive comfort in
these ?n is much better expressed by
"Shall he appeased for these things 7"
" Who is this that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments from Bozrah, Nc, is
greatly helped by representing the con
queror as marching" rather than
travelling" in the greatness of his
strength, and by a more vigorous render
ing of the last clause of v. 6, but espe-
eially by preserving the preterite lenses
of the original.
The appended list of readings preferred
by the American revisers is not very long
and it is generally understood that this
list by no means includes all the points
in which the scholars of this country diff
fered from their British brethren, but only
those which they considered of sufficient
importance to be distinctly specified.
The two most striking general features of
the Appendix are its suggestions in regard
to JeioUah and ShoOl The proposal is to
insert these words wherever the Hebrew
which they transliterate occurs i'll the
original. But the former word occurs so
often that to adopt it uniformly would
make the Bible seem n different book.
Yet no one can deny that there is n
wealth of meaning in the name JelOydh
which LOrM does not even begin to repre-
sent. II may safely bopredictod that one
day or other this change will be made.
With regard to 'sheol' the English re-
visers say in their preface;
The Hebrew SheOl, which signifies the
abode of departed spirits, and corres-
ponds to the Greek Hades, or the under
world, is vnriously rendered i'll the auth
orized version by "graye," pit" and
.'hell," of these renderings, "hell," if it
could be taken in its original sense MS
| used in the Creeds, would be n fairly ade-
quate equivalent for the Hebrew
word, but il is so commonly
| understood, of the place of tor
| ment that to employ it frequently would
| lead to inevitable Misunderstanding. The
revisors, therefore, i'll the historical mar
rative have left the rendering athe grave"
or ''the pit" in the text, with n marginal
not "IIeb. SheOw TO indicate that il does
not signify the place of burial while
i'll the practical writings they have
put most commonly ''sheo" i'll
the text and ''the grave" in the
margin. In Isaiah XIV, however, where
.'hell' is used in more of its original
sense, and where any change III 80 familiar
u passage which wus not distinctly I'M I'M
provement would be decided loss, the
revisers have contcnted themselves
| with leaving shell" in the text, and have
eonneeted IL with other pagsnpes by Dut.
ting "sheol in the margin.
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