The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-17
THE REVISED OLD TESTAMENT.
Copies Issued at Midnight OF Friday
.-IIs History,

Copies Issued at Midnight OF Friday
--lts History.
London, May 16.-Copies of the re-
vised version of the Old Testament
were given to the newspapers this
morning contain copious extracts
from the work. In the following para
graphs is presented the substance of
n semi-oiiicial article prepared for the
London Times, in which some account
of the work of revision, with partic-
ular reference to the American part
of il, is given: Finally we have an in
ternational work of fourteen years, as
il presents the results of the COM
bincd labor of a large number of the
best Ilebaists and biblical scholars of
England and the United States, most
Of their professors of Hebrew in
universities and seminarics. l, has,
moreover, the advantage of the vast
advances of the last fifty years in
oriental philology biblical geography,
history and antiquities, all of which
were but impcriecily understood by
the fOriy-seyen translators of King
James. although il is admitted that
they did the very best in their day.
The new version is not good ver-
sion in place of bad one, but great
| Improvement of good version. The
movement for the present revision
was inaugurated by the convocation
of Canterbury-the me ther church of
| Anglo-SaXon christcndom-- May 20,
1870, by the adoption of the following
resolution
/. That it is desirable that q rcvis-
ion of the authorized version of the
| HOLY Scriptures be undertaken
2. That the revision be so conducted
rs to comprise both marginal render
ings aud such emendations as II may
be found necessary TO insert in the
text of the authorized version.
3 That in the above resolutions we
do not contemplate any new transla-
ton of the bible, or any alteration of
the language, except where in the
Judgment of most competent scholars
such change is deemed necessary.
1. That in such necessary change in
style of language, that employed in
the existing version be closely fol-
lowed
3. That il is desirable that the con.
vocation should nominate body Ct
its own members to undertake the
work of revision, who shall be at lib
crty TO invite the cooperation of any
: eminent foreign scholarship, to what
, ever nation or religious body they
may belong
+, In August, 1870, DIR. Angus sem
. letters to various American scholars
, in which he explained the plan of the
y English work, and suggested the. for
q nation of an American committee o
twelve or eighteen, to which III,
|, work of the English rcvlsors coul'
I be submitted for criticisms and sug
, gcstions.
u The final arrangements for tn
!, American committee were made II
u the summer of 1872. These arrange
monis were concluded by DIR. Schai
who visited England that summer TO
that purpose. On his return in tn
autumn the committee began worl
~ Though nearly two years later tina
II the English committees in bcginnln
h work. they pressed forward with sue
e activity that they were enabled
II complete it contemporaneously wit
Q. the English version.
The meeting of the two America
T. companies were held every mont
n, from September to May inclusi'
m each year. at rooms AZ and Al BID
~ House, New York. A summer NEE
W. ing was held in the month of Jul
usually al New Haven, Andover
Princeton. Tho summer meeting
=, continued for week, the other met
he ings for two days. The members s
sh around common table and free
Is, and fully discussed such passages
rs, chapters as had been previously 1
n signed for the particular meetir
each member having already {
amined and investigated them
IN himself. In this way the whole
the New Testament aud the Old "
infinitely considered and discuss
The work was reviewed in this ca
'N- full manner twice from beginning
I'm end.
ise In the first revision, changes in
an authorized version were recorded
icy further consideration, In case Il
were favored by majority of vo
but in the second review the mule
10 handed vote of two-thirds in or
the to adopt the proposed change. FIJI
ly all passages were examined I'll
time, and in which differences
remained in the views of the Eng
and American companies. II may
safely said that no criticism has b
s it made on the New Testament porl
igd of the work already published WI
| TO was not anticipated anc accordI