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grave undismayed , with serenity arid chearful satisfaction almost su perior to suffering and to death itself , regardirjg it as but a passage to that world where sin and sorrow and suffering will be no more . What an example has this aged disciple teft , and what encouragement does it yield to steady , per-£ evering r faithful exertions in the cause of Christiai * truth and duty .
These are the principal instances in which the rendering affects the doctrines supp > &vd to be derived from the N . T « . respecting the person of our
S&vipur . —In the most important we think th ^ Ed itors have been very successful ; in others we differ from them in the minutiae ; and in others again , we think that they are not fully borne out by the usages of the original language . We are conscious that in these remarks we have had no
object but truth in * view ; and we trust that , if they appear satisiactory to the reader , they will not be thought to derogate from * he general indisputable and unrivalled fidelity and value of the Version .
In two somewhat material points we consider the Editors as having erred in their principles as to the correction of ttieir basis ; — in the rendering of nouns which
are without the article , and in the diversify in their modes of translating the same phraseology in the original *—The first involves some of the greatest difficulties in the Greek language , as far as re-
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spects the transfusion of the idea $ of the writer into our own Ian * , guage . Tlve Greek article denotes that tnc noun to which it belongs is us ^ d defini te ly ; but * ve must determine from the connexion whether the noun is restricted to aji individual in distinction from other individual-, or is applied to an individual as one of a particular class , in distinction , from individuals of oth ^ r classesz . as ^ hen we say in English the dog m
the connexion alone can determine whether we mean a particular dog , or only out / animal of the dog-tribe . This ambiguity in the force of the article , ( or rather of the noun to which it is prefixed * for the article in all cases defines , ) sometimes causes considerable
perplexity as to the proper rendering ; thus in John i . 21 . the Jews ask the Baptist whether ho were 5 irgofiYjTYjt ; , v&hich leaves it somewhat uncertain what they mea n ^ whether a prophet , i . e . one of those who had formerl y sustained
a prophetic character , or , tJt& prophet , i , e . that prophet which was expected hy the Jews in consequence of the predictions of Moses . N jen . ders it a prophet , the I . V . the prophet , &nd wje
think with strict propriety . Again , the absence of the article does not necessarily make the noun indefinite ; and indeed in a great variety of cases the Greek
language d » es not require ^ ahel bometjmes scarcely . admits , of ihe article , where the noun is corp . - p letcly definite 1 " . On this account it is often truly difficult to
A great deal of valqable infarmatipn respecting the actual usages pf ^ a Orcek ^ rriclc , mixed w } tfr a |? usance ^> f error %$ to the *\ ieovy pf , Jt , » r \ d s ^< n ^ ^ Jpst ; copcl ^ ont respecting tjie employment qf it in the N . T .. fpmide 4 { Wpppj 0 ia oo ^ virc-ati d erroneous hypothec , will-be , fopnd % u Mid 01 eton ^ D p ctriR « ftf ^ thc week article , £ vqrr admirer of Middlcton should carefully examine thc ^ utc *
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Repiexa *—r ][ mproved Version of the New Testament . 3 ? 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/31/
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