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stances , departed from Griesbach without qotice or apparent authority . In sucH cases Griesbach should be followed . - * . ¦ Why should we not be satisfied with our present translation and with the received text , is a question which admits of an
easy answer ; and were the proposed Version solely designed for the learned critre , there would be no occasion to say a word on the subject . But it is at least equally ^ designed , I trust . for the unlearned Christian inquirer ; and to Jiiixi I am convinced , a brief view of the reasons for departure from the
common text and common version , given in a familiar , but concise and distinct manner , and accompanied with a statement of the objects of the improved Version , would go far to give him a confidence in the employment of it , which he will otherwise be left to gain from verbal authority , and therefore pften will not gain at all .
' 1 have more remarks which I shall be desirous pf offering if I rnav allow the hope that they will not be deemed intrusive ; I have no wish to impede m any way the executionpf the important undertaking , but to say before , rather than after , its publication , what much thought has led me to regard as conducive to its value . If you judge these remarks entitled to a
place in your Repository , I shall hope that I may presume upon the admission I of a few more I in your next number . ——But , before lay aside my pen , wish to suggest to the Conductors of the Version , whether , as they propose to employ Newcome ' s Version as the basis of it , it would not be desirably to give in your Repository , a statement of those passages \ i
which they propose to differ from fcnm > and of their corrections ? This will enable those who may feel sufficient interest in the undertaking to send to them such remarks ( free of expense , of course ) as might contribute to its improvement ? It-would increase the labour and expense beyond what can be hoped practicable , or it would be well to send a copy of each sheet before
It is worked off , to those persons who might be regarded as likely to improve the version . * in default of thi ^ , what I have suggested above would be found probably an useful succedaneuni . Whether any of the preceding remarks be or be not thought ^ deserving of attention , I wish to the Conductors every success : —their undertaking is a laudable one . and if well
executed , will reflect credit on their cause , and further it more thai * the most valuable polemical writings can do . I am , Sir , very respectfullyyour ' s ,
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596 On an improved Version of the New Testaments
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/36/
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