The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-11-21

a part Of the Divinely inspired Word.
why should not Gods people be In.
formed OF the facts and be stopped
from eating poisonous clements intro.
duced by the Adversary?
Poison In Our Bibles.
II The more Others are silent, the more
tee must speak, We caunot see Gods
sheep spiritually sick without warning
them respecting their Jspiritual food
Not only have we received many mis-.
interpretations Of the spdrables and
symbols of the Bible, but Into ouf;
Bibles themselves eerinintfalse state!'
ments have been injected 1lbng ecu
turtles ago. All well.inf6rmed minis
tiers, OF the Gospel knowjthattour New
Testament was not translated from
the writngsof the Apostles. but, from,
copies thereof. These, copied over. and
over again. no matter how carefully,
were tablet errors. And III addition.
Fas we might expect, occasionally. n
bold transcriber would add "a few
words to make the record conform
the better..to Ills conception of what
1t ,ought;to be. This went on for CEN,
turies before the art Of printing came
into use. 5 ~
The New Testament was translated
from the Greek into the Latin language.
and was known as the vuigate. From
that Latin translation sprAng our vf.
rious English translations-the bouny
or Catholic edition. published in 1000
A. D.. and the King james Bible. Or
Common Version, published In iGIi A.
D. The latter was merely revised
translation. TO assist In which re-.
vision other previousttranslatitns wtfe
used. aid We ate assured th6t tile'f4xt
was diligently compared 'withsrthc
Greek text. But until lately there
were no ancient Greek manuscripts
with iwhlch'to compare it,yThp Greek
manuscripts With which 1t was com.
pared + nrEumlpeycd only eight none u
which dated earlier than tile Tenth
Century. Today, however ;we have
three very old Greek manuscripts 81
the New Testament namely the Alex.
landrlan Ms..theavariean sfSa and i6e1
sinaiiic Ms.R or these tlle Vatican
MS; was the first 10 scome 10 the at:
tention of modern scholarship lt$is
In the Vatican Library, appearing on
It's catalogue as far back as 14I5 A, D.,
which manuscript scholarship iaccrcd.
Its With having been written, III tile
fourth century. Next came the Alex.
andrian MS. which is supposed TO
have been written about tile middle or
the fifth century. 1t. Is now on ex.
libition III lhe;Britisif Museum! Final.
lyt,we have the sinaitics MS. which Is
In possession OF. tile Itussian' G overn.
ment. 1t was found by Constantine
Tischendorf in a ut Sinai Convent,
from which itstakes It's name. 1t IS
accredited wltli$a date OF about $50
A. D.{3of these three oldest MSS. or
the New Testament known lin sthe
world. thes'Eatican and lslnaltic are
the older. S3sd zrs IA yt,slsttst
Assuredly nothing should be eonsid. |
cred rs part of the original Scriptures
that Is notifound many Of these three
oldest MSS. Why should We not tell
this to the people: Why should we
not Inform them THU. some Of stheI
most confusing texts; OF the. Bible, die |
not found in these old manascfipts?
Is It not,a sin TO preach doctrines MS
from God whiehlllaveno partiin these,
early MSS? y This SIS our thought.
From time to time ltiwlll bee pleas.
ure. as well US our duty. to; teach the
common people what stlie clergy Ill.
ready know on this subject. More.
over. the Bible, Students Association
Of Brooklyn has arranged FOR The i'm.
portations Of; copies of The New Testa.
,ment bound in. cloth showing theSvari.
atiohs between the readings Of these (
old Gfeek MSS and oar Common veal
sion; The usual Price fthese is s .6o;I
but, importing them an latge auanti:
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