San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-30
NEW BIBLE TRANSLATION.
IL Will be In German and English
and Include Rocks Not Be-
fore Admitted,

From the Springfield Mass Republican.
An enterprise of much Significance,
about which little seems to be gen.
orally known, at least in America, is
the proposed publication by J. G.
Hinrichs & Co, of Leipsic, In Ger-
many, of . new version OF the Old
Testament, together with the A poorly
pha, and the so called Pseudepig-
rapha-that Is, certain books never
yet admitted into the Christian canon,
but held in reverence by some He
brews. Such are the Book OF Enoch,
Esdras W., the Psalms Of Solomon
all which have value In the inter-
probation of the canoDical scrip
lures. The announcement of this
work was made fifteen months
ago, and was repeated Ia May last by
the editor, Paul Haupt, In No. 9S OF
the John Hopkins University circu.
lars, yet 1t does nos appear to have
reached many people, The whole
work will include the New Testament
also, but not for years yet, while the
Old Testament, in two volumes, will
begin to appear this year. The first
volume is to contain the Hexateuch,
Judges, Samuel and Kings; the
second, the rest of the Old Testament;
the Apocrypha will apparently make
third volume, and the Pseudepi-
grapha, a fourth. The names of the
contributors to the first and second
volumes are given. These include, in
England, Drs. Ball. Cheyne and
Driver, Russell Martineau, w. II.
Bennett, john Taylor, of Keswick
and n. A. White, of Oxford, while in
America the names given are DIR.
Briggs, Prof. G. II. Toy, of Harvard;
George F. Moore, of Andover; W. H.
Ward, of New York, and others.
pSome particulars Of the work are
Piven In this passage from the circu-
var:
Each book will be assigned to one
cholar. A list of the contributors,
fwhom nine are American, thirteen
Ja.nglish and twelve German, are
[, lvep. The German contributions
III ii be translated into English, and
Eupe versa. The translation is to be
liiOofmodern English, with slight in
| ioilation toward Elizabethan style.
| tvided that there be no expression
| M,ntelligible to the average reader.
| "a sh paragraphs shall be introduced
| e. where 1t is desirable for tine sake
feu lesrness. The traditional divis-
iseonto verses may be ind Gated in
tain margin. The composition of
btrts consisting of different docu-
M lie will he indicated by different
| CO.. j.. The notes shall not be hom-
lie but rather archaeological, his
tOeeAl and geographical. 1t will be
we DO leave out theological questions
as An1 as feasible"
hwi name of the translators will
COD " at once the intelligence that
the Nfrk Is In the hands of competent
| schiWFs, but of men who are commit.
tedd the advanced views OF those
who o,to not accept the traditional
OpiL "a concerning the books of the
Bib tn Several of them are already
ut ire ds' points with the orthodox
resp ing the Interpretation of scrip
ture ach are DR.. Briggs In this
couny Yand DR.. Cheyne 10 England.
We ..a find the name of Kueneu on
the but since his death the book
of ~ edntation has been assigned
to Pronasstrow, of Philadelphia for
trausivebn. Prot. Toy is translating
Eek Au Prof. Harper, of Chicago,
Zach p; DIR. Briggs, Ruth; Prof.
Moor Andover, the book of Judges;
DR.. vne, the discovered Isaiah;
DR.. Icour Abbott, of Dublin, the book
of Els req and Paul Haupt, the gener-
al edid Twill translate Ecclesiastes.
The Ossioestament will be published
first IL enty parts. and each OF the
larger ks will be issued separate
| ly. tpico
NotfCo, is announced as yet con-
cernin rive special trsnslators of the
Apocr Gran; but 1t may be surmised
that 10y will translate the Wis.
dom OF, mon, concerning which he
lecture, agreeably at Plymouth
the otltuee Jay. Whoever may tran
slate ne will find 1t difficult to
surpast sn3 noble rhetoric of King
James Seion, though he may easily
come rIu94 r the true sense of the
original meet. How modern is this
passage Nh instapce-modern in ev-
erythtnA cept the elevation and
occasion law laintness of the style:
For ng bIngodly said, reasoning
with thtdoulves, but not Alright, Our
life is 81 hok and tedious, and in the
death Oct btlan there is no remedy;
neltner mere any man known TO
have rel Il from the grave. For
we are bH De all adventure; and we
shall be Oct.atter as though we had
never beet der the breath In our nos.
trils lie as osr re and little spark in
the moviI our heart; which being
extinguis acH FUR body shall be turned
into asheslng our spirit shall be
forgotten teal @, and no man shall
have our put In remembrance; and
our life shouiu So away as the trace
of cloud ,oposs hall be dispersed as
a mist thnuer driven away by the
beams of ty." and overcome with
the heart ocro Dot. Let us fill our.
selves will ~uds before they be
witherad. y OcGaav tokaus nf our