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TAeJtev. C JVellbcloyeds 'Bible. 357
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The Rev. C. Wdlbeloved's Bible. [An Engl...
means pf correcting the errors into which t & e early English translators have fallen , and of imparting to our present version the various improvements which its most judicious admirers acknowledge to be wanting .
But if it were not so , if the version now in common use were as perfect as it could be made , yet in a work originally composed by so many authors , in such peculiar circumstances , in such distant re . « v — — ^^ w »—• « p » w *• - — * , m - ' "w w h m a * J % riB % * »« \ J | fcj % > 14 U V A W »
gions of the world , and in times of such remote antiquity there must be many things utterly unin . tllligible to common English readers ; many things arising from the idioms which a faithful version
must in some degrefc preserve , from the habits of mind which the writers had necessarily formed , from the retigious aad political relations which they held , and from the opinions , manners and usages witK which ^ they were
familiar , that require explanation : -7—and if that explanation be not given , the Bible , even in a faultless version , must be to the majority of those who read it 9 and in many passages of no little moment , " a book that is § ealed . "
Yet further ; supposing a perfect corn men tary added to $ . per * feet translation , so that all persons of ordinary capacities were enabled to read the scriptures in their own tongue with understanding , something more would appear desirable . The Bible should not
only be read with understanding , it should be made conducive to the improvement of the heart , and to the knowledge and , the practice of . the great duties of life ; and although an attentive reader cannot fail J , o derive even from a faulty version of the Sctibtlflire ^ mucti v ^
The Rev. C. Wdlbeloved's Bible. [An Engl...
luable information , and the most powerful incitements and aids-to the attainment of true piety and virtue , yet many will even require assistance to enable them to deduce from what they read the
plainest lessons of wisdom j and from a great number of passages much interesting a , nd important instruction may be derived fcy those who are accustomed u > search for it , which to the generality of readers would scarcely appear .
Upon these principles it l ^ as been determined to submit to the public , aud particularly to that part of it which cannot receive with satisfaction those views of scripture doctrine that pervade the Notes and Comments of almost
all the editions of the Bible hitherto published , a proposal tof another edition for the use bath of families and of individuals ,- — an edition which shall contain a version of the scriptures morecorrect than that in common use .
and which shall furnish persons of ordinary powers and attention with the means of understanding whqt they read , of forming unbiassed opinions concerning the great subjects of faith , and of deriving from the acknowledged rule of life the lessons of piety and virtue which it is designed to
convey . The basis of this edition will be the authorized English version , to which the Editor is determined to adhere as closely as sjhall be consistent with bis giving a faithful
and intelligible representation of the original . No changes will be introduced but such as tlie present amended state of the original text , or the errors and- obscurities of the public version shall absolutely teemfre , - '¦• *' - •' :. : ' f - < - ¦ *¦ 3 '^ 'O
Taejtev. C Jvellbcloyeds 'Bible. 357
TAeJtev . C JVellbcloyeds ' Bible . 357
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/37/
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