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< ed a fact , which is indisputable by any competent judge , that the text on which the common version is founded is capable of much improvement , and that we possess a text whose claims to correctness
are almost indefinitely superior to those of the received text , one would expect that no one could doubt the expediency of endeavouring to furnish the English reader with a translation ,
founded on that more correct text , and uniting . the simplicity of the Old Version with greater fidelity to the original . We can easily understand ^ for we have felt , the reluctance with which modes of expression are
given up , which long use and casual but deeply interesting associations , have endeared to the mind ; but we will not insult our readers by supposing , that in
order to retain them , they would sacrifice fidelity to the original writings of the apostles and evan - gelistSj by adhering either to a false readirig , or to an erroneous translation of a true one .
It is an opinion which has for some time been gaining ground ampng persons whose minds are open to conviction , and WnJ >; make
h correct acquaintance with the scriptures their aim however widely they may differ in the result of their inquiries , that the authorized version admits of
many important corrections , and that it is much to be desired that a correct translation of a corix ; ct text should , be within the reach of all who desire to found their
opinions of faith and practice upon the scriptures . Such con « iterations ,, strongly supported by the conviction , that in several important instances the common version
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authorizes opinions which have no sufficient foundation in the original scriptures , and sometimes where the original gives no countenance whatever to thvm , induced the London Unitarian Society to place the object -among those io which its exertions should be
principally directed . Their first aim , as we are informed in the Introduction to the Improved Version , was to re-publish Mr . Wakefield ' s-. translation . The causes ot their relinquishing this design are giveu in the Introduction ; and as it is probable that the work is accessible lo all our to
reader ^ refe r them . We should have been pleased to have found there a detailed account of the progress of the work which wa * finally resolved upon . Perhaps all is said which was absolutely necessary ; but a large proportion of the subscribers , never saw the reports of tr / e committee , and they would have been glad to possess the means of information respecting the degree of exertion employed upon the important undertaking , and the means which were
actually taker * in order to render it as correct and benefrcial as possible . We may be told that the wqrk itself shows wliat has been done ; and we admit it , but we
nevertheless beg leave to suggest the desirableness of printing in a cheap form the several reports of the committee , for the information , of those to whom they have been , or are inaccessible .
But to return : in 1806 the society , disappointed in their first hopes- yet retaining the opinion , that it was preferable t <> ejn ploy some version already published as a basis , than to attempt a version entirely new * fb ; ed upon that of
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Review . — Improved Version of the New ^ FeJteTnent . $ &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/43/
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