Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-24

poeticsl grandeur of the lyric are shown in
the revision by the change of the past tens'
into the presnt in vv.5-7, aud of the future
into the past in w. l4-l6, q change reduireC
by the original In the obscure passage Elk
xvii. l6) the text retains the rendering o.
the A. v, while the margin gives the more
literal sense of the Hebrew. Because there
is a hand lie. the hand Of Amalack,
against the throne of the Lord (therefore,
the Lord will have war with Analek from
generation to generation" In the second
commandment Xxx. 81 we have a slight
change, "visiting the iniqUity:of the father;
upon the children, upon the third and upon
the fourth generation of them that hate
me-" (the exact sense of the Originally. The
sixth command ". ~ is after the pattern
of the Prayer Book and the A. '. in Matt.
xix. Is. given as Thou shalt do no muir
der" the same at Deut, V. II. The adyan
.sge of this rendering is that it needs no
limitation or explanation. To Kill is often
lawful, and sometimes a duty, but to do
murder is wrong always and everywhere.
Tabernacle of the Congregation" is chang.
ed to "TeDt OF Meeting" In the word
Jehovah" the A. V. is followed, the
revisers not thinking it advisable to
insert it uniformly in place of Lord
or God" which when printed in
small capitals represent the words substitu-
ted by Jewish custom for the inefsb,e name.
Of technical terms from the Hebrew, one in
three seems to have been generally intro
duced. The word grove" Judges vi. 2S)
has been replaced by "aahera with It's
plursls "asherim' and ashcroft"
The Historical Books.
Judges (ch. W The song Of Deborah is
amended according to the demands OF
modern scholarship. Verses 10 and ii are
rendered.
Tell Of IL, We that ride on white asSes.
Ye that sit on rich carpets,
And ye that walk by tins way,
Ear from the noise Of arcGerS, in the places OF
drawing water.
In the Poetical Books
"sheor replaces hell, which has been
changed in prose passages to the grave
and "the pit" with "sheoP in the margin
"Of these renderings hell" saysthe preface,
lift could be taken in its original sense as
used in the creeds, would be a fairly ade-
quate equivalent for the Hebrew word, but
it is SO commonly understood as the place
of torment that to employ it frequently
would lead to inevitable misunderstanding.
Isaiah xiv, where hell is used in more
of its original sense, the reVisers have lett
hell in the text, putting "sheor IN the
margin.
Job l. 5 (also IL, and IL, 5, 81, cursed
God" is rendered "renounced God" In iii.
8, the change of mourning" into Levi
athan" (the marginal reading of A. V. is
demanded by fidelity. Inv. I, 8 the reas-
oning Of Eiphaz is easily perplexed in the
A. V. by making him say "Althoug h af-
Fiction cometh not, ETC., yet man IS born
TO trouble, etc." whereas what he says is
really as the revision gives it:
For affection cometh not forth OF the dust,
Neither doth trouble spring out Of the ground;
But man is born unto trouble,
AS the sparks fly upward.
Sorrow does not come from natural causes,
hat from mans sinful nature. In viii. Is,
as in several other places, "hypocrlte" is
changed to goddess man. which is the
true meaning Of the word. In tx. 20 "V
| be wicked is Justly, and with great ad.
! antage to the sense, made to read, IL shall
be condemned" In the very difficult verse,
xi, II, the revision renders
But vain man would b. wise,
Though man is born wild ass colt,
and puts In the margin one OF the most
probable of the many other renderings,
some of which show that if the charge IN
the text is not true of the race, it is OF some
OF it. In xii. the obscure COM
parison Of man ready to fall to "a lamp
despised" disappears in the revision, which
renders faithfully and clearly.
In the thought of him hat is at ease there is con-
tempt for misfortune;
Il is ready iOr them whose FOO. sliPpeth.
We are glad to see that the common YER
sion of Is, Is, Though he STAY me, yet will
trust him is substantially retained,
though most critics give it different sense.
In the v. q the obsure ''settest print
u con the heels of my feet becomes draw
est line about the soles of my feet. E.,
keepest me prisoner. The revision rem.
1ers xvii. II Are the consultations of God"
etc., more literally and torcibly, thus;
Are the consultations Of Col too small Tor thee
And the word ltqs dcd!c!h gently with thee
So in xvi. 81 it makes JOB express the wish
that his witness God, would see right done
him both with God and with men. The
touching passage xvii. Is, II, where is
low my hope? They shall go down," etc,
is so altered as to show Jobs conviction
that the hope held before him BY his friends,
instead of being realized, will 90 down with
him to Sheol when once he finds rest in
the grave. Thus:
Where, then. is my hope?
And rs Tor my hope, who shall see 1t:
Ii shall 90 down 70 the bars OF SheOl,
When once there is rest in the dust.
In xviii. Is meaningless words 1T shall
4 well in his tabernacle because it is none OF
his" become There shall dwell in his tent
that which is none Of his'-viz., strangers.
The notable passage xix. 2527 is greatly
c ,ariGed. The offensive and needless men,
ton of"worms," to which there is nothing
answering in the Hebrew, is dropped. JOB
lad lust expressed wish for a perpetual
record of bis words, that coming genera
items might know his claim to recltltude.
2 bis, however was not enough. Hence he
adds, But know"-whatever their opin.
ion may be: 81 know"-that my Redemer
iiveth. This vindicator will stand up upon
he earth in future day. and job will see
them. That vision of God will be all that
be needs, as it is an assurance OF peace and
1t will be from his flesh,
and as his body is said to have been de-
stroyed, it must be from q new body, which
implies resurrection. In the margin are
stated the other and more generally accept
ed views, which consider the vision as made
without the flesh" Il E, in q disembodied
state, and that JOB sees God ION my side
i. e., favorable, and mot strange"
e., not hostile or estFanged. The last
clause, my reins are consumed within
MI" is an expression Of intense longing.
The Psalms are definitely divided into
FIVE books, the last four beginning respec-
lively at Psalms xiii, xiii, &c. and evil.
In Ps. viii. 5, man is said Ito have been
made little lower than God" which exact
" conforms to the Hebrew. The A. VS.
lower than the angels" was taken from the
LIN. land copied by the Vulgate, and
quoted in Hebrews ii. ~ where they answer
the needs of the writer's argument. But