Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-05-22
OLD TESTAMENT REVISION.
Some Of the More Important
Changes Made by the Revisers.

manages Maoe py Lne heVlsers.
Among the lighter touches of the
revision Of the Old Testament are
those that occur in the well known |
passage which is here given as re-
vised: "But l know that my Re-
dcemcr liveth and that he shall stand |
up at the last upon the earth, and af-
ter my skin has been thus DESTROYED |
yet from my flesh shall | see God,
whom | shall see for myself, and |
mine eyes shall behold and not an
other"
Another well-known passage in
Ecclesiasties becomes: Remember
also thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, or ever the evil day comes,
or the years draw nigh when thou
shall say | have no pleasure in them"
The change here is "Remember Also"
for "Remember now," with another
variant, cor ever the evil days come"
for "while the evil days come not"
The alterations in the case of Gene
sis have already been given, and for
the sake of comparison the two con-
Guiding verses from the Old Tesla
ment may be extracted from each
version. The authorized runs thus:
Behold, | will send you Elijah, the
prophet, before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the Lord,
and he shall turn the heart of the
fathers to the children and the heart
of the children TO their fathers. lest
he come and smite the earth with
curse The revised renders it, "Be-
hold, | will send you Elijah, the
prophet, before the great and dread
full day of the Lord come, and he shall
return the heart OF the fathers to the
children and the heart of the chill
dren TO the fathers"
Among the minor changes may be
quoted "The foolish scorned the
guilt Offering, for the fools make a
mock at SIM"
The witch of Eudor now sees only
God, not goods ascending"
In Proverbs naughty person"
becomes worthless person."
"Wineis mocker and strong drink
is raging becomes swine is mock
er; strong drink brawler."
In Daniel, "As stoned for awhile
is used instead of "as stoned for one
hour"
The substitution of modern words
for Archaic expressions has only ia
ken place where the word was not
only obsolete, but to the public I'M
Ineligible. Goat of mail" for ill.,
stance, is substituted for "brigan-
dine" in jeremiah Ii, 3, where the
Almighty promises to raise an army
against Babylon "and against him
that lifteth himself up in his brigan-
dine" For the word "cockatrce"
there is given "basilisk" with "oder'
as marginal alternative.
The "wimples and the crisping
pens" mentioned in Isaih iii, %,
have altogether disappeared.
"Emerods' in l Samuel V, 6, makes
way for "HumOurs." "IIabergoen" !
is rendered in Exodus xiii as "coat
of mail" and in Job xlias "the pointed
shaft"
The connection of America with
the revision remains to be noted. 1t
is explained as follows:
In the preface the revisers have al
ready made some progress, and had
in fact, gone twice through the PEN
tateuch before they secured the CO.
operation of the American Old Tesla
ment revision company. The first
revision of the several books was
submitted to the consideration of the
American revisers, and 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 a like
manner forwarded to America, and
the latest thoughts of the American
revisers were in the hands of the
English company at their final re-
view. In every instance the sug-
gestions from the American revisers
were treated with the same consider
alton as those from the members of
the English company, and were
adopted or rejected on their merits.
The preface adds that those points on
which there was ultimate disagree
ment, are placed on record in the
appendix, filling sixteen pages. The
American emendation so recorded,
are chiefly directed towards modern
izing the translation by the omission
of obsolete forms both of language
and spelling.