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to the public . But it is of great importance to be known , nnd it amply justifies the grateful acknowledgments oi the editors of the I . V . that it is in a great measure , if not entirely owing to the munificent encouragement of this distinguished nobleman , that a
critical work , the most valuable to the biblical student of any which has yet appeared ? has been brought to its present perfection . And such is the acknowledged excellence , and utility of professor Griesbach's critical edition
of the New Testament , that the presses of both our Universities are now wins * with ea < : h other , in publishing correct editions of it for the "benefit of their theolosn - cal students . To have been the chief instrument under divine providence , of enabling the learned
and laborious editor to -complete his plan , and of bringing this inestimable , work so early ro the familiar acquaintance of the Knglish theological inquirer , is an
honour which attaches with peculiar irracc lo a nobieman , who has for nvanv vears sustained with liiirnity rlie high oiiioo of Chancellor
to one of our learned Universities , ami which will lon ^ endear li is name , and memorv to a r ' grateful and discriminating posterity « . / 10 . The critique concludes with retailing the old popular
objections a . Minst everv attempt tit a Now or Improved Version of the . Holy Scriptures . These arguments , though they may have their weig ht , with ignorant and ' simple minds , can produce no effect upon the learned and
judiciousj who only are competent to decide the question . The writer argues from " the his-
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380 The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version .
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tory of the manner in which the public version was prepared , ' ' and ' from the number of eminent men who were employed upon it for upwards of three years . * But might hot the same nymber of eminent persons be employed , if needful , and the same timeand pains'he bestowed upon a new translation in the reign of George the Third , as in that of James the First ?
But the Reviewer is pleased to say , ihat " that age vyras far . superior in weight of biblical erudition to our own . " If so , the Fells , the Mills , the Kusters , the Bengels , the Wetsieins , the Ken . nicotts , the De Rossis , and the Griesbachs , have taken great pains to very little purpose . But it i-s useless to argue with a writer , wiio can hazard an assertion , which , if he believes , betrays the grossest ignorance of the most notorious facts .
The Reviewer also forgets to inform ^ us , that King James ' s translators were restricted from altering what were called the old ecclesiastical words , in ^ consequence of which , many errors wire left unconnected , and the
version itself has been regarded b y many learned men , as inferior to some which preceded it . The Reviewer dilates upon the intrinsic excellence of the public version : and unquestionably it is , with some exceptions , admirable
for the age in which it was under * t ' aken . But to contend that it is in * capable of i mprovement , is to maintain that a man cannot perform an-exercise bettor than * i school- * boy . That superstitious attachment to obsolete terms , for which
the Reviewer contends is con * tcmptible . Let the scriptures b « so translated , as that they may be
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/26/
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