Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-18
DtvIsED Old TESTAMENT,
. AMERICAN Scholars Part in Its
Revision.
.s,ssEs IN WORDS AND PHRASES.
, ,.., Years o; Hard Uneeasing Labor
With Their English
Brethren,
..,w THE WORK WAS CONDUCTED,

,y-sphs IS presen'eu 'ne saO''AUC0 -
.;,s,cisl Article prep F4red for the London
e, :, which some account Of the work
.:,.vi.iOn, with particular reference to the
,ssrisan pr; Of it, is given,
-rTrs}lv sn international work Of four
., rsars has come TO close. The re
u r.rsiOn of the New Testament was is
din Msy, 1881, and now the revised
Ia testament will soon be published in
n rsris of the Engish-speaking
I'D This revision is the most
.,,,,sr. event in the history Of
>. English Bible since the publication
|, EiYg Jamess Translation in ISL. The
-,7snen. o { the present revision was inau'
.-.,t.3 by the Convocation of Canterbury,
/. no,hcr church of Anglo Saxon Christen-
;,T Nav %, l7TO. Steps towards the for
-,,oD Of an American Com mittee Of Re
~. were taken almost Immediately after
i. o-,sniza,ion Of the English companies.
~ frs- meeting Of the New Testament
|T--rsny in England was held June %,
~ On July following the two Houses
r,,vccs,,on voted TO invite the co oper.
m. Of some American divines, and to
hon Wl!5erforce and Dean Stanley was
.sgrsi soon afterwards the duty Of secur'
,,-l, result. The list of the American
...-- 49,, a. T,llNuyg.
r.rsral Officers Of the Committee
p >chaH. D. D., Ii. D., Preaident;
.rs- Z. Day, D. D., Secretary.
us Tss,qmert COmp-ny-ProE Wm.
F. 70 Green. D. D. IL. u. Chairman,
F..o.rsical Seminary, Princeton, n. J ;
b.. George Z. Day, D. d. (Secretary }
,,7 school Of Yale College, New
9a.v, Conn. Prot Chas. 4. Aiken, D. D.,
/ .r1Cgical Seminary, Princeton, n. ]. d;
> Rev. T. ". Chambers, d. D., Collegiste
..,-nsi Dutch Church, New York; Prot.
..uss J. Couant, D. D. Brooklyn, n. Y. +;
r. John De Witt, ID. D., Theological
|~-irary New Brunswick, n. j.; Prof
Gso Eulen Hare, D. d. LII. d., Divinity
Esool Philadelphia, Prof. Charles P.
|.a-,h. D. h., LID, Vice Provost of the
,ysr,i;y Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
|Pgl Tsyler Lewis, LID, Union School,
Easlsc,aiy n. Y. Prof Charles NJ.
klsi D. D. Theological Seminary, And
E,.;. Mass Prot. Howard Osgood, D. D.,
LID, Theological Seminary, Rochester,
q Y. Prot. Joseph Packard, D. d., Thee
4 Ecal Seminary, Alexandria, Va; Prof
I4ul Ellis Stowe, D. D., Hartford, Conn +;
hi James Strong, S. I. D., Theological
E.-i,ar7, Madison, n. j.. Prot Rev. c. v.
/ ian pyck. h. D, ". d, Theologica'
binary, BeyrUt, Syria ladyisori member
Z lsslions Of Arabic
! he meetings OF the two American com.
a-.ss wtre held every month, from Septem-
J. 70 Nay Inclusive, in each year, at Nos.
sid - Bjolg House, New York. A sum-
+: meeting was held in the month Of July,
t.ll7 a, New Haven, Audoyer or Prince
b. The sgmme- meetings continued for
seek the other meetings for two days.
BE members sat around common table,
81 rsely and fully discussed such passages
isgtsrS as had 6een previously assigned
: he particular meeting, each member
3T.1g already examined and investigated /
tsz Tor himself. In this way the whole Of
E New Testament and Of the Old wes
,:ieiy considered and discussed The
,s vas reviewed in this careful manner
pee i.on beginning 10 end.
4; sR early period in the history OF the
Z an arrangement had been made b.
Fs2 The English companies and the Off
5 ccOlsc,td With the University prc-3cs
1 yc-i and Cambridge, by which the
$50 version IN Great Britain became the
.Fe;'y OF n sc institutions, on condition
a tie large expenses incidental ID the
! ..aIa'ion &C. he work in that country
4 ID oe paid by them. The copy right in
%, E:'aia accordingly passed into their
,ro. and zone was reserved for America,
.e-s q: 10 time desired by the Ameri-
committee 10 have any such arrange
70; made between themselves and pub
fSsrS u TIE United States, or in any way
4 =. sres,giction on the sale Of the new
q 'or the purpose Of securing any re-
.',ra',on tor their own services or any
a'1t .Or themselves whatever.
/; some words Of frequent occurreuce,tb e
,'.zed version being either inadequate
2socNS,sn,, changes have been intro
',s' nth as much uniformity as practica-
For instance, tabernacle of the con-
A's1cn has been everywhere changed to
:.' Of meeting In regard to the word
''-o7ah, the usage Of the authorized YER
T, followed. the revisers not thinking II
.7sao'e 10 insert il uniformly in place Of
-''1 or tod, which when pointed in
al capitals represented the words substi'
80 oy Jewish custom fer the ineffsble
4Sa u:;echnicsl terms from the Hebrew
s q three seem to have been generally
-sei1ced. The word grove Judges VI
las been replaced by "ashers,' with it:
as asher!m and ashcroft In the
"a BOOKS SheOl replaces hell, which
: zen changed in prose passages TO the
.s and the pit, with "sheol in the
,:'se reuderings, he'll" says the pre-
- lit coald be taken in its origIns
: aS used in the creeds, would be q
- :1sgCa'e equivalent for the HebreS
- 'It !, IS 20 commonly understood q;
lace Of 'Orment, thst to employ 1t tre
-; Sos.d lead TO inevitable misunder
,,!as.
4 I,s,ah xiv, where he'll is used il
20; = original sense, the reyisers have
1r. II the text putting "sheoE in
-a'Gn. 'A5addon,' which has hither
a,sa saoEn TO English readers Of the
oly 'i0m the New Testament (Rey
N III, Las been introduced II
pass ,ss, once in JOB snd twice IL
20" Ihe term meat offering hai
@a6.e3 into meal Offering" th'
term having ceased to be th'
rame for sll food. a
'Fal - peoples = has been intro
sitoGgh sometimes this becomes
=. Thsr the contrast to the Chosen
marked All headings OF chap
a'e been dropped, as in the reyiseC
: :Ss'aUsut, and the text has been di
!. MO Paragraphs. By this means tn
=, , ; have been enabled to rejoin Psalm
=, =, n X, and Psalm xiii. to Psslu
=. "a ,S to begin Isaiah Iii at chapter lii,
- be several dsvs Of creation at
-'ie prominent by breaks Of . lin
ii al ne verses. This expedient has en-
. y, i-e 'svisers to make use of the dia
=, : : 20, and 10 shoS the dramatic chsl
- a Tue Song of So,ga the frat chan