The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-22
MAGNOLIA, MISS, FRIDAY MAY %, 1885.
THE REvIsERs' WORK,


Samples of Few of the Changes Made
in the Authorized Version and Incor-
porated in the Revised Edition of the
Old Tcstament--A Heavy Demand for
the Work.
LONDON, May 17.-Among the lighter
touches of the revision of the Old Testa-
ment are those that occur in the we'll
known passage which is here given as re-
vised: "But know that my Redeemer
liveth and that He shall stand up at the
last upon the earth and after my skin has
been thus destroyed yet from my flesh
shall see God, whom shall see for my
self and mine eyes shall behold and not
another"
Another well-known passage In Ecclesl-
astes becomes: "Remember also thy Gre
ator in the days of thy youth, or ever the
evil day come, or the years draw nigh
when thou shalt say, have no pleasure
In them" The change here is "remem-
Der also," for remember now" with an
other variant, cor ever the evil days
come" for "while the evil days came
not" The alterations in the case of
Genesis have already been given, and for
the sake of comparison the two conclnd-
ing verses from the Old Testament
| may be extracted from each ver-
sion. The authorized runs thus: "Be-
hold, will send you Elijah, the prophet,
| before the coming of the great and dread
full day of the Lord; and he shall turn
| the heart of the fathers to the chill
| dren and the heart of the children to
| their fathers, lest come and smite the
| earth with curse" The revised rend-
| ers it.: "Behold, will send you Elijah,
| the prophet, before the great and dread
| full day of the Lord comes and he shall
turn the heart of the fathers to the chill
dren, and the heart of the children to
the fathers"
Among the minor changes may be
quoted: 'sThe foolish scorned the guilt
offering, for the fools make a mock al
SIM"
The witch of Endor now sees only ga
God," not ''gods," ascending. In Pro
verbs, a tnaughty person" becomes ga
worthless person."
Swine is mocker, strong drink is
raging" becomes Swine is a mocker
strong drink brawler;" in Daniel, Gas
tonshed for awhile,n is used instead o.
s'Astonished for one hour"
The substitution of modern words fol
Archaic expressions has only taken place
: where the word was not only obsolete
I but to the public unintelligible. Coca
of MALL" for instance, is substituted TO
"brigandine," in Jeremiah Ii 8, wher
the Almighty promises to raise an arm
, against Babylon, "and against him tina
!, lfteth himself up in his brigandine.
J For the word "cockatrice," there is give
"basillisk," with "adder' as the margin
, al alternative. "The wimples and tn
!, crisping-pins, )" mentioned in Isaiah lii %
+ have altogether disappeared. "Eme
| rods" /. Samuel 6, makes way fo
: "humors." "Habergeon" is rendered !
D Exodus xviii as "coat of mall" and
e Job xii as "the pointed shaft"
l AMERICAN WORK.
Y The connection of America with th
T revision remains to be noted. 1t is ez
4 planned as follows in the preface: Th
: revisers had already made some progres
e and had in fact gone twice through tt
g Pentateuch before they secured the c,
n operation of the American Old-Testamei
: Revision Company. The first revision
: the several books was submitted to I'll
n consideration of the American reviser
y and except in the case of the Pentateuc
e the English company had the benefit
J. their criticisms and suggestions befo
|
IS This second revision was In lii
lr manner forwarded to Anne
l. lea, and the latest though
y of the American revisers were in t
N hands of the English company at the
final review. In every instance the su
se gestions from the American revisers we
~ treated with the same consideration
those from the members of the Engli
9, company and were adopted or rejected
t. their merits. The preface adds that tho
tn points on which there was ultimate d
r agreement are placed on record in
IT. appendix, filing sixteen pages. I
lis American emendatious so recorded {
chiefly directed toward modernizing
translation by the omission of obsol,
forms, both of the language and spellii
CONSERVATISM.
at- The Daily Netos says: "The revis
have erred, if they have erred at all,
air the side of obstinate conservatism rat
IL than on the side of rash innovation
inf The Atheneum says: "The revision
literary success. There are no pret
- sions to scholarly completeness,
II practically no alterations in the textr
Dat The revisers can be congratulated in
re, wisdom of their decision on declining
lay make new text of old as the other c.
Inc pany did with the New Testament.
lne HEAVY DEMAND.
rs The rush for press and authentic Co
ISn hr, of the revised Old Testament is unpr
ny y dented in England.
w The Pail Mall Gazette states that
oa London correspondent of a great
,,,S York newspaper offered $500 for sin
"a, -, sight of an advance copy of the rev
- Old Testament at one of the Univer
publishing houses. The officers ha'
ssa.st the printing in charge were obduratt
uus .mn refusing to accede to the corresponds
~ obstinate request. The correspond
, the Gazette says, was authorized BY
@ tho paper to spend $4,000 in telegraph
.no the main features of the new vers
was The first orders for the issue OF the
vision amounts to over 100000 col
tha Ex-President Arthur's Horses.