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Archbishop Nevt'conie ; partly fr 6 m a Conviction of its simplicity aftd general fidelity , friit principally from its being founded on
the valuable lext of Griesbach ' s first edition . With truth only as our aim , and the importance of the object as our motive , we feel ourselves obliged to dissent from
the plan adopted . We wish the common version had been adopted as the basis , and Newcome r s as the general guide in correcting it ; care being at the same time taken , scrupulously to reduce the version to a correspondence with Griesbach ' s second edition . On this plan as we apprehend , every valuable end that could be effect * ed by that now adopted , would have been equally answered ; and *> ne of great moment would have been obtained in addition to them , —the Improved Version would
have met with a more cordial reception among that Very respect * able class of readers , who from l 6 ng habit have formed a decided and generally judicious taste for the phraseology of the Common
Version , and with a view to whose benefit it would have been highly desirable to change only when a change was a real improvement in perspicuity or in fidelity to the original . It is reasonable to suppose , that the primate had in view
to forward his long wishod for object , the fevisal of the common ti ^ inslation by public authority . Whetiuver that ifc doh £ , it will be highly expedient , that every change should be made tohteh is called for by minute attention to the strictest rul ^ s of translation ,
artd to the structure and pecituia . jities of our own language : but in &ll private efforts of this kind to for \ yartl thfe great wdrk of diffusing
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scriptural knowledge , itto ^ e we ate persuaded is to b& ddne ^ by ch&tigmg only where change is necessnry , in ordter to give the meaning of the original mote faithfully and clearly . Hut if some other versiori werfc
to b £ adopted as the b&sis , no one could be more proper than Archbishop Newcome ' s : it retains a large portion of the simplicity of the common version : it is
indisputably more faithful and perspicu * ous ; and it is founded on a much ^ more correct text . The adoption of this by the society , determine *!
the general complexion of the projected work ; and it must have given great satisfaction to all Ayho wer ^ acquain ted with the valde of Newcome ' s Version . That
satisfaction would hayevfreen greatly increased in the minds of many , if the society , while determining the plan of their important un .
dertaking , nad laid down asare , gulatitig principle iri th 6 alterations to be made upon their basis that wherever the departures of Newcome from the Common Vet *
sion were not rendered necessary by a regard t < j > fidelity and perspicuity , ^ the translation adopted in the Gcimmon Version should b ^ restored . The grounds of fcuch
satisfaction ^ as far as respec t ^ oufselyes we have already « ufflcieritly stated . AH this however was prelitni ~ nary to the actual commencement of the undertaking ; and with out
objections , the committee who were appointed to put the plan of the society into execution , have afc such , no concern . The princw pie by whidb they were to . be guided in their labours , was to make noother alterations on NewcomeVVersiotu than what uptrn
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L 65 Revi&w . —lMpfei&S Version of the New Testamen e *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/44/
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