The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

erence. BY this means the revisers
have been enabled to rejoin the Tenth
Psalm to the Ninth Psalm, and the
Thirteenth Psalm to the Twelfth Psalm,
and to begin the thirteenth chapter of
Isaiah at chapter twelve, verse thirteen.
The several days of the creation are
made more prominent by breaks of
line between the verses.
Examination of the more familiar
passages and phrases discloses the fact
that care was taken in preserving intact
household words of the Old Testament.
The old literary form has been held
sacred and the revisers cannot be
charged with any pedantic straining
after the original text; but not all the
familiar features of the Scripture have
escaped untouched. The high priest
no longer casts lots for the scapegoat;
he does so for Azazel. The summary
of each days work at the creation now
runs according to the formula: "And
there was evening and there was morn
ing one day.; "there was evening and
there was morning second day." a
third day, and so on, giving sugges-
ton of successive stages, with long in
tervals. The "apples of gold " of
Proverbs XIV: II are now encased in
"fgured work. of silver, not in epic
lures" "Vanity and vexation of spirit"
(Ecclesiastes ii. ~ has become CYAN
ity and a striving after wind" 'Happy
is the man that hath his culver full of
them" psalm cxxvii: - has been
changed into "Happy is the man that
hath filed his culver with them"
Reuben's curse Genesis xix. ~, Gun
stable as water, thou shalt not excel"
now reads, UNSTABLE as water, have
not thou the excellency."
The following changes also CRATE
against associations: The authorized
Genesis, chapter six, verse four, "There
were giants in the earth in these days"
is revised The nephelion were
in the earth in those days" In
the authorized edition Dob XXI:
35), " Oh, that one would hear me- be-
hold! my desire is that the Almighty
would answer me, and that mine adver-
sary had written book" is revised:
d" Oh, that one would hear mel Behold,
my desire is, that the Almighty would
answer me, and that / had the indict-
ment which my adversary hath written
The authorized Eighth Psalm, verse
five, " For thou hast made him little
lower than the angels" is revised:
" For thou hast made him little lower
than God" The authorized Psalm cxvi,
verse eleven, {" said in my haste, all
men are liars" is revised: 60 / said
when l made haste to escape, all men
are lie.' Ecclesiastes xii: IS, % Let
us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter fear God" ETC., has been revised
to read: "This is the end of the matter,
all hath been heard. Fear God" etc.
Proverbs xiv: 9, @ Fools make mock
at sin, but among the righteous there is
favor" revised, reads: g The foolish
scorn the guilt offering, but among the
right there is good will"
The above are nearly all of the pas
sages in which shock is given to old
associations. In other passages there
are found variations which cannot be
called rash alterations. For instance,
Isaiah lii: 10, in the authorized version,
reads: " Behold my servant shall deal
prudently; he shall be exalted and eX-
toled and be very high" The revised
reads: " Behold, my servant shall deal
wisely, he shall be lifted up and shall
be very high" Isaiah liii 3, in the au-
thorized version, is: . He is despised
and rejected of men; a man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief; and we hid,
as it were, our faces from him; he was
despsed, and we esteemed him not. ="
spised and rejected of men, man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief; and
as one from whom men hide their faces,
he was despised and we esteemed him
not" The same chapter, verse seven,
is changed to read: " He was afflicted
yet he opened not his mouth; as lamb
that he led to the slaughter etc. Same
chapter, verse eight, ''He was taken
from prison and from judgment, and
who shall declare his generation?" is
revised to read, "By oppression and
judgment he was taken away, and who
considered his generation?" In the
ten commandments are some verbal al
terations, the most striking being that
in the sixth-"ThOu shalt not kill " be-
comes "Thou shalt do no murder"
DeuteronomyxxXi 5, They have COR
rupted themselves; their spot is not the
spot of his children, - is revised: "They
have corrupted themselves, they are
not his children; it is their blemish. :"
The following are examples in which
the actual task of revision is distinctly
seen:
Authorized version, Genesis XIII 14-"In
the mount of the Lord it shall be seen" Re-
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