Arizona republican., 1912-12-01
Adam and Eve Not in New Bible

version of the Bible by the American Baptist pubE- sation Society, with headquarters Philadelphia has caused revival of the question over which Bibcan students have differed since trans iatIons from the original Hebrew and Greek texts should the language of the Bible remain that early translations be modernized?
 The revised version eliminates all Seven teenth Century diction. Obsolete are replaced by ones in general today several words in the ancient translated into different English words than formerly.
 Most noticeable of all changes perhaps are those in the Lords prayer, three whole clauses the being dropped. and the diction made smoother De evil one" and closes the prayer Even the GUS tomary Amen" is omitted
 As revised, the Lords prayer reads:
 Our Father, who in Heaven halloWed be thy name. Thy kingdom come Thy will he done, as in Heaven earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debt also have forgiven our debtors And bring us not into temptation. but deliver us from the evil one.
 Adam and Eve named the founders of the human race in the King James version, give way to man" and woman" in the new version Such words as loveth" and "1eadeth' are replaced by hell" Adam is eliminated in this wise:
 And out of the ground the Lord formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; brought them to man to what he would call them. Genesis
 The change in the new version which is the of it's being designated the Baptist version is that wherever the word "baptize" the word
 
 Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized Gmmersed) by him Matthew 3:13.
 Cergymen of the Baptist church object to the phrase, Baptist Bible" The revised version was translated from the original by commit of Baptist ministers, it is true but work intended to be general For that reason immersed" placed in secondary rank bracketed. The translation was started by convention in Sara toga, N Y, in 1883.
 of is n Exodus. The King James version for Exodus 2O:4, 5 6. reads:
 Thou shalt make thee any gray image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, that is in the earth beneath that is in the under the earth.
 Thou shalt bow down myself them them; for 1 the Lord thy God, a jealous God. visiting the inquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate
 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love and keep my command The revised version gives a broader sgnifi- to Gods mercy. The read
 Thou shalt make thee carved image any likeness of what is in the heav ems above, or Of what is in the earth beneath, what in the waters beneath the earth
 Thou shalt bow myself them them; for l. Jehovah, thy God, jealous God. visiting the inquity of the fathers upon upon the third generation ana upon the fourth generation of them that hate
 And showing mercy to the thOusandth generation of them that love and keep commandments
 In eliminating the term "her the revised edition follows the revised edition of 1881. which grave and pit with sheol, in Hebrew the dark place of the dead, the margin. Sheol is the language the Hebrew text, while hell" cording the trnslators the revised is translation of the word "hades" in the Greek 
 balI gates of the underworld The revised verse
 And I say to thee that thou Peter and this rock 1 will build my church. and the gates of the underworld shall not prevail against it.
 The Baptist translators have taken step in the story of Jonah The words great fish, which appear in the authorized version. revised sion and the Douay version, do not appear in the new revised version. Jonah 1:17 reads:
 the Lord prepared a whale to swallow Jonah And Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.
 That makes the Book of Jonah agree with St Matthew 2:4O in the three other versions. Already clergymen other denominations attacking the substitution of whale for great fish.
 All parts of the Bible which written ir poetry given in verse form in the new version The Psalms appear in form approximating the ancient Hebrew with a divided line accentuatine the antiphonal effect.