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equivalent only , is in 1 John iy # 9 » .- rendered only-begotten 9 we cansidier as a merely ., accidental
circujiistance .- —The folloy ^ i ng are some other instances of the ^ want pf uniforrpity in rendering which we have noticed . Irj Mark xiii . 14 ., N , Ixas been left for the common rendering . ' the abomination of desolation / but in M * xxiv . (
15 . though the original has the same words , "Ncw . cpme ' s translation is retained , viz . * the abominating desolation . * In Matt . iii . 7 . we find * offspring of vipers / instead of Newcome r s ' generation of vipers ;' the change is a good one , but
w . e do not see why the same change Should riot have been made in ch M xii . 34 , where the I . V , has ^" brood of vipers / In 1 Tim . i . 11 , the I . V . has c the blessed Crod , ' where N . has c the happy G 6 < Ji ? ( so also in ch . vi . 15 . ) The alteration is a very good . one ; WruTwe-should have been glad to liaveseen it more frequent , indee $ in all casts where tne happiness sppken of is of a religious nature , pr thp result of religious goncjjuct . Blessed seems to us * always tQ
convey the idea of happiness as Tpsuliing from the ordinations of providence ; and in some instances t \ ie word happy / appears ^ improper , * a ' s perhnps necessarily implying a " present state of mind which
blessed does not : a person may ^ e plessed when he is in deep distress , but he is not happy ; and afflictions may be blessings , but triey are not ' themselves happiness . This rather refers however , to what
has'beon loft in ' the ' I . V . than to What has been altered ; but as NewcpniQ bas retained blessed in Luke x * 23 ^ and xxiii . 29 / we should have wished to have seen hhssed in Jtjhe passage corresponcL iiiff-tothe-tornier ( Mat .-xiii , l 6 \)
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or happy in alh We observe about six passages in which pa , yt < x , $ ios ought we think to be rendered happy ( viz . Matt . xxiv . 46 , Luke xii . 37 , 38 j 43 . AcU xxvi . 2 . 1 Cot . vii . 40 - ;) and some others in which it is nearly indifferent which rendering is preferred ; but in by far the greatet number blessed appears to us decidedly preferable , particularly in Matt . v . 3—11 * . Lukevi . SO , 22 . Acts xx . 35 * Tit . ii . 13 .
James i . 12 , 25 . 1 Pet * iii . 14 . iv . 13 . Rev , xiv . 13 . find those place § in , which the I . V . has blessed . Before we made these remark ^ , we attentively considered Newcom ^ e ' s note on Matt , v * 3 . ] but we are satisfied that the pri mate was i& . an error , and a refer . en ce to Joh nson ' s examples would perhaps have led him to thinkj so too . We ha 4 marked some other passage ^ the renderi ng of which in the I . V . does not seem to us
to be an improvement ( or at least the right improvement ) on Newcome ; but we bear in mind that our own renderings m . ay appear to others as exceptionable , as the
instances which we * refer , to , to us . We aspire not to infallibility , and we have no room to justify every minute , remark which we miiiht otherwise make .
—Jt would be exceedingly easy to point out numerous improvements ; but we must be satisfied with the general approbation which we have more than once expressed ; and we feel a firm conviction , that if
any unbiassed critic will examine the alterations with the same roinuteness" with ourselves , he will arrive at the same conclusion * that the I . V . is a decided a ^ J material improvement upon the basis which has been employed
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280 Review . —Improved Version of the Neto Testament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/34/
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