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    actually made amounts to about 7 50 . Many of these are in cases of frequent occurrence , such as teacher for master , N . —Hosanna for Save now , N . &c . A large proportion of the alterations arise from employing Newcome ' s marginal rendering , or one proposed in his notes , instead of that in his

    text ; and several from the changes made in Griesbach's second edition . At a random calculation , these may reduce the number , to about 400 independent alterations . Our readers will not expect that we should examine the whole

    of these separately . la our estimation the Editors have in general been very successful in improving upon their basis ; and we cannot therefore hesitate in saying > that the Improved Version

    is by far , the most faithful and intelligible version of the Christian scriptures , in at least the English language * In some very important points the Editors have made improvements which will remove the difficulties

    unnecessarily felt by the unlearned reader ; and in numerous other instances , by apparently small , but in reality valuable , alterations , they have decidedly improved their basis in " the language ,

    construction , or sense / ' In examining the alterations individually , the reader will perhaps not unfrequently meet with cases , : n which they do not correspond with his own ideas ; and he will also

    see many other passages left unaltered , where he may think that great and decided improvements wight have been made . Aud if persons dwell upon these things , j « ey itiay bring themselves into a belie ?/* ( hat no improvement has keen made upon New . corners trans-

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    lation ; but we persuade ourselves , that if candid judges willform their opinion , not upon a ^ few individual cases , but upon the general character of the alterations , it will accord with the judgment which we have already expressed . After the remarks in our preceding numbers , we shall not be suspected of advocating the cause of the Editors when we say , that , in justice to them and

    their labours , the friends of the cause ought not to indulge themselves in * sweeping cen / sures" of the I . V . but should content

    themselves with stating the particulars in which they are dissatisfied . The present benefit of the reader , and the future improve * ment of the Version , would alike be consulted by this plan ; and the examination to which it would

    give rise , would in other respects be advantageous . The Editors ( Introd . § . i . ) express their intention of noticing in every instance the rendering of Newcome where they leave it . In almost all cases they have don £ so ; but in some few places they have left it uncertain what is

    Newcome r s rendering , or even have altogether omitted to state it . Upon a very careful collation of the two Versions made for us by a young friend , we believe that the following arc the only passages in which such doubtful

    or unnoticed departures occur : Matt . vi . 7 . x . 23 , 24 . xi . 27 . xiii . 39 , 40 , 49 . ( where N , has world , ) xviiu 3 , 17 . xix . 17 . { where N . retains the reading of the R . T- and P , V . ) xxiii . 10 . xxiv . & 3 « xxvi . 4 . xxvii . 53 . Mark i . 4 . vi . 13 . viii . 37 . x . 33 . xv . 6 \ Lukei . 32- 36 . -iv . 3 * . v . 32 . xii . 50 . xix . 3 i )« xx . 21 ,

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    Review . —Improved Version of the New Testament . 21 f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/41/