The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-27
A NEW TRANSLATION.
sIone Tramp Thinks New Bible
Would Make Things Better.

EIOne Tramp Thinks New Bible
Would Make Things Better.
The page appears to be making a bet
ter show since the farmers have more
leisure. or since the worlds fair closed.
Yes. MAUD Maple" 1 think the
worlds parliament of religions marks an
epoch in the worlds history. Yet it is
but the dawn, many who participated
in it and more who did not have yet to
accept the first principles Of Christ; the
golden rule, the command to love your
neighbor as yourself; to be tolerant
where we are not Indifferent. The spirit
of bigotry is not extinct if we are not
killing one another over controversies
over "homoousian and homoiousan"
there is still much bitterness over con-
scientious differences of opinion.
If 1 am not misinformed there were
some in the parliament too much inn
pressed with the belief. Il am holier
tl1an thou art"
But 1 think the great need of the
Christian world is a true literal transla-
ton: not revision, where two-thirds of
an OvercOnservative body is necessary to
make a change, but a new translation
based upon the oldest and best Greek
manuscripts with the older Transitions
and the earliesS Of the fathers as side
lights. Then I would not limit the books
of the bible to the dictation OF any coun-
ell, but include all that were accepted by
the early Christians.
/ think our translation is faulty First
in the use of the article which il is said
is omitted 1000 times where it is in the
original and inserted not quite so often
where it does not belong. OF course the
Greeks used it much Oftener than we do.
yet when the same writer used il and
sometimes did not they certainly in
tended to express a difference of thought.
however slight that should be respected
by the translator The supplying or
emitting of "a" often changes the mean
ing Of a passage. Nor do they stop with
this; other words are supplied and omit
ted often apparently with a purpose.
Then the case and number of nouns are
arbitrarily changed. The Ordnals are
violently substituted for the cardinal
numbers. Undue choice is used in the
words of our language as substitutes for
the original. For instance, ninety-four
expressions are given for one Hebrew
word and fOrty-nine Hebrew words are
rendered into one English word. The
Greek is not quite so bad, but the same
English word is substituted for 1T least
ten Greek words Take this word de
strOy;' we find it nearly always a de-
rived and not the literal meaning of the
Greek. Destroy this temple'--tfreek,
"lOosen or loose down" The Jews did
not destroy His body, but did loosen it
from the spirit. Again, in Mat V, II,
IS, a literal translation would be as fol-
lows Think not / have come TO loosen
down the law or the prophets. L am not
come to loosen down, but TO fully set
forth. for indeed, / say to YOU while
heaven and earth is passing away one
point is not passing from the law until
al is brought forth" And by way of
illustration, he goes on TO fully set forth
some doctrines of the law which the
ScribeS had 'lOosened down." or relaxed.
His meaning appears to be that there
was to be no looping off or culling out,
but the law would all stand until all was
done away. But Christ did come to de-
stroy the law. 1t was the handwriting of
the ordinance against US he came to blot
out. 1t was the middle wall or partition
he came to break dOwn-the wall that
shut out from the kingdom all but the
Jews. 1t was that yoke which Peter
said neither we nor our fathers We're
able TO bear"
The Jewish religion was carnal; it's
blessings and its curses were upon the
animal man. The light of the world,
like the light of Asia, esteems the su-
preme good to be deliverance of the
spirit from the letters Of the flesh 1t
esteems the flesh of no profit; that in
the mortal body dwells no good thing.
The law was temporal. The religion Of
Christ is for eternity; is not of the body,
but of the mind.
Paul longed to be delivered from the
earthly tabernacle; to be rescued from
this body of death. Yet our Transitions
of Rom. viii, %, make him long for the
redemption of the body. If this be cor
rect he is still waiting for the adoption,
as the body will not be redeemed until it
is resurrected, if such an event ever were
to happen / think what Paul said there
is, And we, having the first act of the
sacrifice of the spirit. ourselves grOan
within ourselves waiting for the SON
ship, the loOsing from the body" This
is a literal rendering and is justified by
the context, by the spirit Of all Pauls
writings He certainly expected to be
with Christ when he escaped from the
body.
''The first act of the sacrifice" dhe
primary significance of the Creek was
taking the Offering to the place of sacri-
fee. presenting it at the altar. They
had presented their spirits at the altar
and were "groaning within themselves"
waiting for the conservation Of the sacri-
fee
Let us break down the middle wall Of
partition, cast aside every dogma that