The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-10

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Professor Haupt, VIII be printed by J.
C. Hhnrichs, of Leipsig, and the Eng
lish version by the Johns Hopkins
press, of Baltimore.
Speaking of the work typographical
ly, Mr.. Block says it will be one of the
most remarkable books ever produced.
It will be printed upon colored back
grounds, with sometimes three or four
colors upon the same page, and even
two or three in the same line, each one
of these colors indicating a different
element in the construction OF the book,
so that the reader can see as he reads
just where changes have been made in
! the original text, where later writer's
have made additions and where there
are Long lapses of years between one
portion of book and another. For ex-
ample, in the book of Leviticus, the So
called Priestly Code is printed in black
ON white background, without fur
tl1er colorfng, while portions that were
added many years later appear on a
brown background, and the so-called
Law of Holiness is distinguished by
yellow coloring. Additions that were
made by subsequent editors of the
Bible are indicated by overlining.
OF the new version he gives two
specimens, the first from Ecclesiastes.
chapter xii, verses Is. Here is the
new version of Ecclesiastes:
And let thy heart cheer thee in the
days of thy manhood;
| Walk in the WAYS of thy heart,
And in the sight of thine eyes,
| Danish moroseness from thy heart,
But keep away evil from thy flesh,
| For childhood and manhood are fleet
! ing.
Remember thy wife in the days of
thy vigor,
Ere there come the days of evil,
And the years draw nigh
| In which thou wilt say 1 have no
pleasure.
Ere is darkened the sun, and the
light of the day,
And the moon, and the stars,
And the clouds return after the rain;
When the keepers of the house trem-
! Bile,
And the men of power bend them
| selves;
The grinding maids cease
And the ladies that look out through
the lattices are darkened;
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He riseth at the voice Of the birds,
And all the daughters of song are
brought low,
He is afraid of that which is high,
And fears are in the way;
The almond tree blossometh
The locust crawleth along with diff
Guilty,
The caper-berry breaketh up,
The silver cord is snapped asunder,
! The golden howl crushed in
The bucket at the well shivered,
And the wheel breaketh down at the
pit.
Man is going TO his eternal house,
And the mourners go about the street.
Vanity of vanities, saith Ecclesiastes.
All is vanity, and all that is coming
is vanity.
This is the old, or King James, YER
sion:
And let thy heart cheer thee in the
days of rhy youth, and walk in the
ways of thine heart, and in the sight
of thine eyes; but know thou, that
for all these things God will bring
thee into judgment.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy
heart, and put away evil from thy
flesh; for childhood and youth are
vanity.
Remember now thy Creator in the
days of thy youth, while the evil days
come not, nor the years draw nigh,
when thou shalt say, Il have no pleas
ure in ttem;'
While the sun, or the light or the
moon, or the stars, be not darkened.
nor the clouds return after the rain:
In the days when the keepers of
the house shall, tremble, and the
strong men shall bow themselves, and
the grinders cease because they are
few, and those that look out Of the
windows be darkened,
And the doors shall be shut in the
streets, when the sound of the grind
ing is low, and He shall rise up at
the voice of the bird, and all the
daughters of musick shall be brought
low;
Also. when they shall be afraid of
that which is high, and fears shall be
in the way. and the almond tree shall
flourish, and the grasshopper shall be
a burden, and desire shall fail: because
man goeth to his long home, and the
mourners go about the streets:
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or
the golden bowl be broken, or the
pitcher be broken at the fountain, or
the wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was: and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preach
er; all is vanity.
From this it will be seen that the
line. Remember now thy Creator in
the days of thy youth" is moi in the
original Hebrew, that it is merely a
garbling of the true text, the true rem
dering of which is, Remember thy
wife in the days of thy vigor."
The other specimen given is from
Isaiah, the parable of the vineyard The
new version reads:
A song will I sing of my friend,
A love-song touching his vineyard.
A vineyard belongs to my friend
On hill that is fruitful and sunny;
He digged it and cleared it of stones,
And planted their vines that are
choice;
A tower he built in the midst,
And hewed also therein wine-vat;
And he looked to find grapes that are
good,
Alas! it bore grapes that are wild.
Ye in Jerusalem dwelling,
And we who are freemen of Judah,
Judge We, 7 pray, between me
And my (cherished) vineyard.
What could have been done for my
vineyard
That l had not done?
When L looked to find grapes that are
good,
Why bore it grapes that are wild?
And now let me give you to know
What purpose to do to my vineyard
| q WILD take away its hedge,
That it be eaten up,
| It wild break through its walls,