The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-21
BIBLE WITHOUT HELL OR J0NAHAND WHALE
UNDERWORLD" AND ssBIG'' FISH"
ADAM AND EVE ENTER LATE
Many Changes in the s'Improved Edition Now Complete and
 on Sale.

Ent1On NOW Compiete and on Sale.
 A complete Bible for Baptists with no "hell' in it and the onah and the whale story. modernized so as to be in keeping with modern knowledge of the size of a whales throat has been placed on sale by the American Bap- tist Publication Society. < It is called 'san improved edition and contains many changes. in text and style from the King James and Douay versions Adam and Eve appear only as .'tIe of Genesis, although they get names tlater on. Jonah s whale becomes a great fish," there is a new reading of the Lords Prayer and there are radical changes in the wording of the Second Commandment
 14 A large part of the new Bible was Bible Union began the work, but many of the books of the Old Testament ap- pear now for the first time. In the New Testament where the Bible Un- ion version replaced t.baptize'' by i'm merse'' the newer edition keeps the 1fbaptize'', but places '<imn1erse" be- side it in brackets.
 translation are Prof. Burnard c. Tay- Tor Of Crozer Theological Seminary, Prof. J. R. Sampey of the Southern ys dent Harper of Chicago University and Prof. Ira M. Price. Although transla- ton was finished in 1910 the version has just been placed on sale.
 Dr.. c. Kingsley Rowland, secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, is of the opinion that the proved version will tend to change the diction of pulpit prayer. which he described as sixteenth century" He saiai ..!I,o aeno,ars zo have nerfectea the translation for the Baptist Bible have aimed, so far as it was oons1s- tent with strict interpretation of the thought, to eliminate obsolete Eliza bethan words and replace them with those in general modern use.''
 To this end .Ioveth'' is replaced by ..love'' and ..leadeth', by 'lead' and in the Second Commandment "graven image becomes a ttcarved image
 Jonah's whale was changed to big fish fish & it wa+ + sa,d beeanS@ tnrv so sf,an mamy bling block in the way of belief in the Scriptures after learning that whale would have cboked before he had hardly Eegun on the prophet of Min eyeh.
 While Adam and Eve are replaced on their first appearance by the man. and "the woman as a direct trans1a ton of the Hebrew names. the Garden of Eden is left in and present 1y Adam and Eve appear under those names.
 The new version of the Lords Pray. CT is as follows:
 lowed be Thy name. Thy :li3e -. come Thy will be done. n : ~. SC oa earth. Give us tn5.
 daily bread And forg; debt 5as we also have Fe--
 debtoEs- And bring LIS ncs .' tations but deliver us frer-- One
 Tie use of .'imnaerse,' to Baptist teachings is ii-~r ~c '. Matthew, third chapter. s.si.' e1.' !
 Then comes Jeshs from cglilet. to the Jordan to John to be paptszed dna- mersed) by him.
 Tn the commandment the changed reading visits the iniquity Of the fa- thers not upon the children as in the older version. but only on sons The many changes in this commandment make it read follows in the Bap- tist Bible:
 s.Tflou shalt not make to thee g. carved image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or of what is in the earth beneath, or of what is in the waters beneath the earth; thou shalt not bow myself down to them God. am jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, upon the third generati of them that hate me. and showing mercy to the thou sandth generation of them that love me and keep my commandments .
 Dr. Rowland says that the reading showing mercy to the thOuSanQLn generation. was held to be more force -ful and conprehe ensive than the King James version. which reads: Showing mercy unto thousands
 The replacing of 'hell'' by the very modern s'underwor1d'' appears in the sixteenth chapter of Luke in this
 And I Also say to thee that thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of the un- derworld shall not prevail against it. v
 Part of Ezekiel and all of the Psalms appear in verse form in the
 The general difference in style be- tween the Baptist Bible and the old CT versions is suggested by the open ing verses of Genesis:
 Tn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was waste and empty; and dark ness was over the face of the abyss: and the spirit of God was breeding over the face of the waters.'sz
 While the Bible Union version, on which the new version is founded and which appeared in 1865, never came into very general use even in the Baptist Church, it is believed that the complete Baptist Bible will do so- Already there has been a lively de- mand for the improved edition, and if was said that this did not by any means come entirely from persons cur-s Ioss about the changes.
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