The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-23
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touches ~ tha revision u We nlt tssia
msat are tbass ihit 0tcnf IN the welt
suowh pisstas shleh IL heff Eisee aa re-
Nsfd eBm know that thy hsdaemef
iltflh hnd that W. shall stand 40 II The
laal upon iha eaftb ,hd alter ny skin has
been tbus destroyed yet from my feah
shall see God whom shall see ior my
seli and mino eyes shall behold ind NOT
anulbot"
Another sell known passage IN fcclcsl'
ades becomes Remember also thy cfe'
ilof ID the days Of Thy youth, or ever The
eyll day come, o. the years draw nigh
when thou shalt say, have no pleasure
IN them" The change here is "temcm.
her also" for remember now with an.
other variant, TOR ever the cvll days
come, ~ for "whlle the evil days came
not " The alterations In the case ot
Genesis have already been given, and f0r
the sake Of comparison the two eonelnd
lng verses from tho Old Testament
may be extracted from each yer.
| sion. The authorized runs thus "l'e-
hold, VIII send You Elijah, the prophet,
before the coming Of the great and dread
FIJI day OF tho Lord and ho shall turn
| the heart of the fathers 10 the chill
dren and the heart Of the children to
their fathers lest come and smlte the
earth with a curse" The revised rend'
ers H. "Bchold, will send You Elijah,
the prophet before tho great aud dread.
nt day of the Lord comes aud he shall
turn the heart of the fathers TO the chill.
drcn, and the heart OF the children to
the fathcrsh
Among the minor changes may be
quoted, "Tho foolish scorned the guilt
offering, for the fools make mock At
SIM
Tho witch OF Endor now sees only "a
Cod not "gods,h ascending, In FRO
verbs, 'naughty person" becomes "a
worthless person"
"wlne IL mockcr, strong drln.' u
raglnr,n becomes "Wine IL a mockcr,
strong drink brawler;n In Daniel, CAS-
tonshed for awhio,n Is used instead OF
"Aslonlshed 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 unintclllglble. "Coal
Of mall, !" for instance, Is substituted fol
"brgandInc," In Jeremiah II 8, where
the Almighty promises TO raise an army
nraInst BABYLON, nand against him tina
lIfioth himself up in his brigandlne.'
For the word 'cockatrIce," there Is glyeI
"baslllisk,n with "addcr" as the margin
, Al alternative. "The wimples and th
, crlspng pins - mentioned In Isaiah vi 22
( have altogether disappeared. "Eme
4 rods,u /. Samuel 6, makes way 10
"humors.n "Ilabcfgcon" IN rendered u
D Exodus xviii as "coat Of mall" and u
e Job iii as "the pointed shaft"
4 AMERICAN WORK.
? The connection Of America with III
T revision remains to be noted II Is ex
1 planned as follows in the prefacei Tn
}. reyisers had already made some progres
c and had In fact gone twice through tn
c Penla,euch before they secured the CO
n operation of the American Old-Tostamcu
= Revision Company The nrst revision
J. the several books was submitted TO III
N consideration Of the American reylser
y and except In the case OF the Pentatcncl
10 the English company had tho benefit |
}. their criticisms aud suggestions befoI
l. they proceeded to the second revision
Is This second revision was In lik
lr manner forwarded 10 Anne
.. lea, and tho latest thought
y Of the American rcyIsers were In u
n hands Of the English company at the
final review. In every instance the SUI
se pestIons from the American reyisers wei
N treated with the same consideration
those from the members OF the Englli
=, company aud were adopted or rejected
T. their merits The preface adds that tho
Tn points on which there was ultimate dl
r. agreement are placed on record In q
IT, appendix, filling sixteen pages. II
lis American emendatlons so recorded a
chiefly directed toward modernizlng I
translation by the omission Of obsole
forms, both Of the language and spellln
CONSERVATISM.
at The Ddiiy Ners says; "The revise
have erred, II they have erred at all,
llr the side OF obstinate conservatism rati
n. than on the side Of rash innovation
n, The Athenetm says "Thc revision u
" literary success. There are no pret'
hs slons 10 scholarly completeness, q
H. practically no alterations In the textu
Jat The reylsers can be congratulated In
re, wisdom OF their decision on declining
lay make new text OF old as the other co
he pany aid with the New Testament"
he HEAVY DEMAND.
ng The rush for press and authentic cop
ieI Of the revised Old Testament II unpre
" dented In England.
"n The Pail MdH Gazette states that
on London correspondent Of great N
-, = York newspaper offered $500 for sim
lih a sight Of an advance copy Of the rcylI
I'D Old Testament at one Of the uDlyeT'
publishing houses. The officers hay
sIs the printing In charge were obdurate
"a. refusing 10 accede 10 the correspondent
uh obstinate request. The correspond
as the gqzsns says, was authorized bY
sre paper to spend $4,000 In telegraph
lhe ihe main features or the new Tersl
eas The first orders for the Issue OF the
: vision amounts 10 over 1000, 900 cop