The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-16
OLD TESTAMENT.
The Work of Revision Al
Last Completed.
THOSE ENGAGED IN THE WORK.
,os in the Hands of the News
papers, and Now for Cri-
ticIsms.
The Revised Bible.

,ot has been permitted to receive a
comn,ete copy of the REVISED old Tesla
ment The 5000 people employed in
hiding and packing are closely watched
pli, nreyent breach of trust on their part.
T ~ Dean of Canterbury, who was a
,nsmber of the revising committee, IS
nreparing paper on the revised YER
sion. 20 Co.;o oe tbo
Used version of the Old Testament
we're given to the newspapers at md
n;gbt last night. All the papers this
morning contain copious. extracts from
the work. In the following paragraphs
:l' presented the substance of
- sami-oficial article prepared
for the London Times, in which
some account of the work of revision,
nth particular reference to the Ameri-
can mart of it, is given: Finally an in
ternatiOnal work of fourteen years has
come to a close The revised version of
the New Testament was issued in May,
1881 and now the revised Old Testament
will soon be published in all parts OF the
Notwithstanding world. This revision Is
the most important event in the history
nj the English Bible since the publication
of the King James translation in 1911.
The success of the Old Testament may
NOT be as great as that of the new, of
which more than 100000 copies were
sold on the day of publication, and
more than 100000 copies before
tbe close of the year; but
It will probably be more favorably re-
ceiyed and less severely criticised. for it
involves no changes of the Hebrew
text. No other manuscripts than the
Masonilic having been discovered and
the idiom of the authorized version is
most carefully preserved, out of regard
for the conservative feeling of the church
in its attachment for the language of
the old version. All the errors of trans
lation, however, have been removed,
and the revision will be pronounced by
every competent Bible reader to be
great improvement. 1t presents the
results of the combined labor of man,
large number of the best Hebrewists
and Biblical scholars of England and
the United States, most Of them profess
sors of Hebrew in the universities and
seminaries. 1t has, moreover, the ad-
vantage of the vast advance OF the last
fifty years on Oriental pathology, Bibli-
cal geography, history and antiquity,
all of which were imperfectly under
stood by the forty-seven translators of
King James, although it is
freely admitted that they did the very
best in their day. The new version is
not a good version in the place of bad
one, but a great improvement of a
good version. The movement for the
present version was inaugurated by the
conservation of Canterbury, the mother
church of Anglo-Saxon Christendom.
May 81, 1870, by the adoption of the
following resolutions:
First-That it is desirable that re-
vision of the authorized version of
Holy Scriptures be undertaken.
Second-That the revision be so con-
Quoted as to comprise both the marginal
readings and such cancellations as may
be found necessary to insert in the text
of the authorized version.
Third-That in the above resolutions
we do not contemplate any new
translation of the Bible or any altera-
ton of the language, except where, in
the judgment of the most competent
scholars, such change is necessary.
Fourth-That in such necessary
changes, the style of the language en-
ployed in the existing version will be
closely followed.
Fifth-That it is desirable that the
convention should nominate body Of
its own members to undertake the
work of revision, who shall be atliberty
to invite the cooperation of any,
eminent for scholarship, to whatever
nation or religious body they may be-
long.
Steps towards the formation of
an American committee of revision
we're taken almost Immediately after the
organization of the English companies.
The first meeting of the New Testament
company in England was held June 22d,
1870. On the 18th of July following the
TWO houses of convocation voted to in
Ylte the cooperation of some American
divines, and to Bishop Wilberforce and
Dean Stanley was assigned, soon after
wards, the duty of securing this
result. DR.. Angus, who was con-
templating a visit to America to
open a correspondence with Rev. l..
Schaff and other American scholars,
While in the United States in regard 10
this work. In August, 1870, DR.. Angus
sent letters to various American
scholars.
The general officers of the committee
we're: Phillip Schaff, DID,, LII. D., presi-
dent; George E. Day, D. D., secretary OF
William H. Green, D. D., LII. D.,
lchairman) of the Theology Seminary
Of Princeton, Professor Charles A.
Aiken, D. D., Theological Seminary,
Princeton, n. j.; the Rev. T. W. Cham
6ers, D. D., Collegiate of the Reformed
Dutch church, New York; Prof. Thomas
GGonant, D. D., Brooklyn, New York;
Professor John De Witt, D. D., Theo-
logical Seminary, New Brunswick. n. j.;
Professor George Eller Hare, D. D.,
Ii. D., Divinity School, Philadelphia;
Professor Charles P. Knau, d. D., LIZ
D., viee-Provost of the University OF
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Pro
lessor Taylor Lewis, LII. D., Union
sfehool, Schenectady, New York; fro7
lessor Charles NJ. Mead, Theological
seminary, Andover, Massachusetts;
;FFirof. Howard Osgood. D. D., LII; u,
theological Seminary, Rochester, New
,TTeork; Prof. Joseph Packard, d. u,
theological Seminary, Alexandria, va;
rrof. Calvin Ellis Shaw, d. D., Hart
1TSfd; Prof. James Strong, s. 7, y,