St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-18
THE BIBLE REVISION.
Still More Work of the Committee ON
Revision.

Revision.
LONDON, May 16.-Among the lighter
touches OF revision of the Old Testament
are those that occur in the well-known
passage, which is here given as revised
/ "But know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that he shall stand up at the last hour
upon the earth and after my skin has
been thus destroyed, vet from
my flesh shall see my God, whom T shall
see for myself and my eyes shall behold
and not another" Another well-known
passage in Ecclesiastics becomes 'sRemem-
Der also thy Creator in the days of thy
youth OF ever, the evil day come or the
years draw nigh, when thou shalt say I
have no pleasure in them" The change
here is remember also'' for remember
now, with another variant ''or ever the
evil DAYS come" for ''while the evil days
come not" The alterations of Genesis
have already been given, and for the sake
of comparison the two concluding verses
from the Old Testament may be extracted
from the
AUTHORIZED VERSION,
reading: ssBehold 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 tothe
children lest come and smite the earth
with a curse.u The revised renders it:
''Behold / will send you Elijah the prophet,
before the great and dreadful day OF the
Lord comes, and he shall turn the
heart of the fathers to the children
and the heart of the children TO
the fathers" Among the minor
changes may be quoted: ''The foolish
scorned> the guilt offering, for the fools
make mock at SIM" The Witch Of Endor
now sees only God, not Gods ascending.
In Proverbs naughty person
becomes worthless person. ''Wine
is a mocker, strong drink is rag
ing, f" becomes; ssWine is a mocker, strong
drink brawler. In Daniel, "Astonished
for while'' is used instead of 'Astonished
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. unintelli-
gible. ''Coat of mail" for instance,
is substituted for ''Brigandine" in Jeremiah.
l.. 1-3, where the Almighty promises to
raise an army agaist Babylon ''and against
him that Hfteth himself up in his Brigan-
dine" For the word s'Cockatrice" there is
given ssBasilisk'' with adder as
the marginal alternative. The ''Wim-
in Isaiah Ill %, have altogether disap-
peared. ''Emerods'' in i. Samuel, V. 6,
makes way for ''Humours." Hubergeron
is rendered in Exodus xviii. as ''coat of
MAIL" and in Job, xii. as ''the pointed
shaft
THE CONNECTION OF AMERICA
with the revision remains to be noted. 1t is
explained as follows: In the preface the
revisers had already made some progress,
and had gone twice through the Pentateuch
ere they secured the cooperation OF the
American Old Testament Revision COM
mittee The first revision of the sew
eral books was submitted to the
consideration of the American revisers, and
except in the case of the Pentateuch, the
English committee had the benefit of their
criticism aud suggestions before they pro-
ceeded to the second revision. This
second revision was in a like manner
forwarded to America, and the
latest thoughts of the American re-
visers were in the hands of the English
committee at their final review. In every
instance the suggestions from the American
revisers were treated with the same con-
sideration of those from the members of the
English committees, and were adopted or
rejected on their merit. The preface adds
that those points on which there was
ULTIMATE DISAGREEMENT
are placed ON record in the appendix, filling
sixteen pages. The American cancellations
so recorded are chiefly directed towards
undermining the translation by the omis-
sion of obsolete forms. both of language
and spelling. The News says:
1.-THE revisers have erred, if they
have erred at all, On the side of obstin-
ate conservation rather than on the side of
rash innovation. The Atheneum says:
''The revision is literary success. There
are no pretentions to scholarly complete
ness and practically no attractions in
the text. The revisors can be congratulated
for the wisdom of their decision in declin-
ing to make new text of the Old, as the
other committee did with the New Tesla,
ment.