The Somerset reporter., 1885-05-27
The Revised Bible.
SOME OF THE REvIsIoNs AND ALTERATIONS
EXPLAINED.

opcns with a statement of the gener-
al principles on which the revision
has beeen conducted. The reyisers
have borne in mind their duty not
To make a new translation, but to
revise that already existing, and
have departed from it only where
they disagreed with the translators
of 1911 upon the meaning OF "a word
or sentence.
The terms of natural history are
only changed where it is certain
that the AUTHORIZED version is incor-
rect. Where it is doubtful or there
ia an alternative the rendering Is
given in the margin. In some words
of frequent occurrence, the author
lied version being inadequate or in
consistent, changes have been intro
duced with as much uniformity as
practicable. For instance, "faoer'
nacle of the Congregation has been
changed everywhere to "Ient OF
Meeting" In regard to the word
WJehovah' the usage of the author
lied version is followed, the reyisers
NOT THINKING IL advisable to insert 1t
,,~ NV; IN Mace of "I,ordn or
"rnJ y wb;cb when printed in small
oo,,;tolS ranresent the words substi.
tmtaJ hy Jewish custom for the In
o@ohio Name Of technical terms
from the Hebrew, one in three seem
to have been generally introduced.
The word 1groyen (Judges, vi, 2S)
tas han ranlaced nv .tashera, with
;ts nlnralsE"asheriinn aud cashier
9th i
Tn tho noetical hooks "sheolr re-
r,anes "belln which ha. been chan
raJ in nrose passages to "the grave"
and the "pitp with "sheolr in the
margin sOf these renderings, "hell'
COWS tho nreface of it could be TAX
on in ;ts original sense as used in the
croaJs wonId he a fairly adequate
enn;valent for the Hebrew word,
Int r Is an commonly understood as
the Mace of torment that to employ
+ freouently would lead to inevi-
table Misunderstanding In Isaiah
XIV. where "help' is used in more
of ;ts original sense. the reyisers
have left 3helr, in the text, putting
0sheoln in the margin. "Abaddon,r
which has hitherto been known to
English readers of the Bible only
from the New Testament (Revela-
t;on IL. ny. has been introduced in
three nassapes-once in Job and
twice in Proverbs,
The term "meat offering,r has
been changed to "meal Offering the
former term having ceased to be the
Generic name for all food.
The Psalms are definitely divided
into Ave hooks. the last four begin
ming respectively at Psalms xiii, &c.
and evil
A striking Improvement is the
nr;nting of ali poetical passages in q
noetica1 form. This has been done
in the Psalms, Proverbs, Job and
Canticles. but the Prophets have
been left in prose, however passion.
ate their oratory.
The summary of each days work
at the Creation now runs according
to the formula sand there was
evening and there was morning a
second dayn a third day, and so on,
giving a suggestion of successive
STAGES with long intervals.
The "apples Of goldn of Proverbs,
WV. IL are now encased in "fgured
worku of silver not in "pictures."
MVanitv and yexation of spirit"
fEcclesiasties. H.. 1T has become
"vanity and striving after wind.n
"Happy is the man that hath his
ouiyer full of Them (Psalms cxxvii.,
81. has been changed into "Happy
il the man that hath filed his qui-
yer with them.n
Among the lighter touches of re-
vision Of the Old Testament are
those that occur in the well known
passage which is here given as revis
ed:
"But / know that my Redeemer
liveth and that he shall stand up at
the last upon the earth and after my
akin has been thus destroyed, yet
from nv flesh shall l see God, whom
shall see for myself and mine eyes
shall behold and not another"
Another well known passage in
Ecclesiastics becomes
"Remember also thy Creator in
the days of thy youth, or ever the
evil dav come or the years draw
nigh when thou shalt say | have no
pleasure in them" The change here
is Remember also" for "Remember
now.n with another variant, "or ever
the evil days Gomez "tor while the
evil DAYS come not
Among the minor changes may be
quoted: 1.-THE foolish scorned the
gilt Offering, for fools make a mock
~ MI witch IF Endor now