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358 TU JRev. C. Pffellbeloved's Bible.
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The Rev. C. Wdlbeloved's Bible. [An Engl...
Jh the corrections which may b £ ihside ^ irt tfre text of the Old Tfeatatqdnt mticii * nust be left to the E ^ litdf ^ judigment , as the col - lations of Kennicott and De Rossi
have not yet been employed in forming an improved edition of tHe Hebrew : Scriptures . In the version of the New Testament lie will feel himself justified in adhering closely to the text of Griesbach ' s lasl edition , wherever hia
variations horn the -received text make any change in the meaning ; and in respect both of the Old and New Testament the Editor will studiously avail himself of the valuable translations in his
own , or in other languages , so far as he is able , and or all works of Biblical Criticism to which he can gain access . The design tit the Note * being to render the Scriptures intelligible to English readers , th * y will
be . chiefly Explanatory , generally adapted to family as well as private reading . A few P ^ ilological Notes may be necessary , to be printed , perhaps , at the end ef each book ; but the greater pain of the notes will consist of iamiliar
illustrations of terms and phrases , and of references to opinions , events , customs and manners * with which the generality of readers must be supposed to be unacquainted . It may not be possible
altogether to avoici such as may be called doctrifial ; yet the eon ± slant aim of the Editor will be , n <> t to recommend a system ^ but to assist the serious enquirer after truth to deduce his uwti
conclusions , by pLicing before him a f ^ ir " and intelligible version of the Scri ptures which alone it is his dtity to follow » To render this edition useful for
The Rev. C. Wdlbeloved's Bible. [An Engl...
family reading , it is intended-1 ^ £ divide the New Testament , an * such portions of the Old as are suited to that purpose , into sec t * o $ s of a coRvement lengthy and to subjoin to then * such reflections
of a devotional and practical n £ ^ ture as may be naturally suggested . To such parts as may not be fitted for family reading short explanatory or critical notes will be added for the use of the private reader .
As the great object of this ttnw dertaking is general utility * it Wilt be of little importance that kit the Dotes and reflections should b 8 original * The . y & lue of the jarorfc
will , it is thought , be enhanced in proportion as the teaming send ' piety of the ^ mQStr able translato rs ; critics and annotatois can be em **
bodied in it . The E ^ tor ^ c * itl spare no pains to give it this value # The public will ^ now ^ be § m possession of the leading pi ^ fcip k ^ upon which tfee proposed t ^ w ^ rk is to be coiwluctecL O ^ ht ^ r thi nm
cond uci ve to the perfection of the whole are in contemplation , rind might ; here be enumerated ; but the Editor fea ** be may have a ^ ready , promised more than he may be thought able to perfor m * / N © one indeed can b ^ more sensible
than be is of tbe extent and diffi * culty of the task he has undertaken , —a task on wbicb he would not venture but with the hope ot contributing something towards the elucidation of a book which
he prizes above all other books , ^— of rendering it more useful to those who are now disposed to read it , ~ - and of recommending it to the attention of those who are
deterred from the serious and regular perusal of it by the difficulties it contains * Yet even these views would not have justified him
358 Tu Jrev. C. Pffellbeloved's Bible.
358 TU JRev . C . Pffellbeloved ' s Bible .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/38/
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