The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-18

instances are borrow (ask), college fsecond
ward, dragons lmonstersl, groves (plllars).
mules warm springs, hats tmantles), owl
lostrich), satyrs (goats), tablet tperfume-box),
unicorn wild ox wounds dainty morselsi,
f1agons Of wine (pressed grapesl, etc. Besides
these are Hebraisms such as 'God of my right
eousness,' for my righteous God;7 and. again,
1.-THE throne of His holiness for His holy
throne" The tense forms Of verbs often
misrepresented. Futures are given as perfects
and vice versa. Thus, in Psalm xvii, g. the
common version reads: Then shall the
earth yield her increase whereas the
poet really says: 1.-THE land hath yielded
her increase" referring, doubtless to a recent
harvest, the theme of the praise given before,
and of the confident hope expressed afterwards.
Other changes are due TO a clearer perception OF
the meaning of particular clauses and OF the
connection of the different parts of the same con-
text.
6. Another small class of alterations occurs
In certain passages which, owing to modern re-
fnement, have now a disagreeable coarseness
These have been modified so as not to lose a
particle of their true meaning, and yet convey
that meaning without indelicacy, so that the
words may be read in public or In the family and
not give offense
Dr. Philip Schaff chairman of the American
committee on the revision of the Bible, SAID tn's
morning II am the only person IN America
who has seen copy Of the revised Old Testa-
ment. Not even any other member of the COM
mittee of revision has had look at one. have
a number of copies myself, which are stored
safely away. They will not be distributed TO
any body until next Thursday. 1t was a rule
adopted by the committee ct the very beginning
that no part of their work should be made public
until all was finished The object was to pre-
vent outside criticism from exerting influence.
The cabegrams In the morning papers believe
TO be not entirely accurate, for the reason that
the London papers were not furnished with cop
les until late last night and it must have been
impossible to treat the subject thoroughly and
to avoid mistakes in cabling. l could give you
the whole matter if / wanted to, but do not
want to-"
THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS.
The following is the first chapter of Genesis,
according to the revised version. The notation
sion for the sake of comparison, though the new
version will be printed in paragraphs, with the
verse numbers in the margin:
l. In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.
2 And the earth was waste and void and
darkness was upon the face of the Deep and the
spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
B. And God said: Let there be light; and
there was light.
T. And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness
5. And God called the light day and the dark
ness He called night And there was evening
and there was morning, one day.
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters.
Z. And God made the armament and divided
the waters which were under the armament
from the waters which were above the frma-
ment; and IL was so.
s. And God called the armament heaven;
and there was evening and there was morning, a
second day.
9. And God said: Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and
al Auxr low,1
TO- And God called the dry land earth, and
the gathering together of the waters called he
seas; and God saw that it was good.
III. And God said: Let the earth put forth
grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing
fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof,
upon the earth; and it was so.
IL And the earth brought forth grass, herb
yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing
fruit wherein is the seed thereof after its kind;
and God saw that it was good.
Is. And there was evening and there was
morning third day.
IA And God said: Let there be light in the
armament of the heaven to divide the day from
the night; and let them be for signs and for sea-
sons, and for days and for years.
l5 And let them be for lights in the firma-
ment of heaven to give light upon the earth;
and it was SO.
l6 Aud God made the two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day. and the lesser ligat
to rule the night He made the stars also.
II. And God set them in the armament of
the Heaven to give light upon the earth,
Is. And to rule over the dav and over the
night. and to divide the light from the darkness;
| and God saw that 1t was good.
10. And there was evening and there was
| morning, fourth day.
| 20. And God said: Let the waters bring
| forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
| life and let fowl fly above the earth in the
open armament of heaven.
Il. And God created the great sea monsters.
and every living creature that moveth, which
the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind; and
God saw that it was good.
o. And God blessed them, saying Be fruit
full and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
70. And there was evening and there was
morning, fifth day.
"a And God said: Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after its kind, cattle, and
creeping things and beast of the earth after its
kind; and it was
%. And God made the beast of the earth
after its kind, and the cattle after their kind
and everything that creepeth upon the ground
after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
20. And God said: Let us make man in our
image after our likeness, and let them have do
minon over the fish of the sea- and over the fowl
Of the air. and over the cattle. and over the
earth, and over everything living that creepeth
upon the earth.
| 81. And God created man in his own image,
| in the image of God created He him; male and
| female created He them.
| %. And God blessed them; and God said unto
| Them Be fruitful and multiply. and replensh
| the earth and subdue it. and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth
| upon the earth.
! 49, And God said: Behold, have given you
| every herb yielding seed which is upon the face
of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is
the fruit of Tree yielding seed; 10 you it shall
| be for meat
90 And IN everU haast IF tha earth and "a
every fowl of the air, and to everything that
creepeth upon the earth. wherein there is life,
| have given every green herb for meat; and it
was SO
81. And God saw everything that He had
tnade, and, behold, it was very good And
| there was evening and there was morning, the
sixth day.