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    most easily understood , and there can be no doubt that they will meet with due respect from all who are solicitous to understand their inestimable contents . The Reviewer allows that the

    public version contains * souk . ? partial imperfections , " And whoever takes tLe , trouble to read professor SymoncU ' s Observations , will see that these imperfections are neither few nor small .

    To counterbalance these , our Reviewer produces examples of inaccuracy , or want of taste in some mockrn translations ; but this is miserable argument . A

    person must he totall y destitute of critical discerning nt and taste , who does not greatly prefer Campbell ' s , or Newcome ' s , or Wake field ' s translations to the

    public version , though blemished here and there with a colloquial expression , or an obscure phrase . And experience will supply the best answer to the case so solemnl y proposed from Dr . Hey ; " the question is not whether new

    translators are likely to render some parts better than they were before , but whether , upon the whole , they are likely to produce a better iranslation . " And I would not hesitate to say , that , with the exception of Ur . Har . food ' s liberal translation , every new version of the New Testament , from Dodch-idge to New .

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    come , is a considerable improve * rnent upon King James ' s Version . Not that the editors of these new versions were men of greater learning or integrity thaH King James ' s translators , but » . hat , in addition to ail the assistance winch

    has been furnished by critics and commentators for correcting the text , and understanding tin : meanin 2 ; of the sacred writ'Ms , these editors have had the . a- 'i vantage of consulting King James ' s Version in framing their own .

    As a piot > f that all the divines of the established church are not infected with . the same illiberal prejudices as our narrow-minded Reviewer , 1 shall transcribe a passage from a Visitation Sermon of the late learned and venerable Bishop Lowth .

    " To confirm and illustrate the Holy Scriptures , to evince their truth , to shew their consistency , to explain their meanin / , to make them more generally known and studied , more easily and perfect y understood by all , to remove

    the difficulties which discourage the honest endeavours of the uniearned , and provoke the malicious cavils of the halflearned ; this i- < the most worthy object which can engage our attention ; the most important end to which our labours in the search of truth can be directed .

    And here \ cannot but mention , tnat nothing would more effectually conduce to this end , than the exhibiting the Holy Scriptures themselves to the people in a more advantageous and just light , by an accurate reviaal of our vulgar translation by public authority . ' * * It is to be hoped that the an * .

    To shew that divines of all denominations have agreed in the propriety of a revi al of the public version , I will here set down the testimonies of Dr Geddes and Dr . Campbell , the former a Catholic Priest , and the latter a Presbyterian Mister of tie Church of Scotland -. — % I will venture to affirm , " says Dr . Geddes , « ' ( and lv affirm with full con fiction ) that James ' s tianslators have less merit than any of their predecessors ; a "d that the version of Tindali , revised by CovcrJale , is ; i . uster representation ?* lnc oiigiiiaT , ( such as he had it ) than our pre-ent vulgar version . r l he truth > s— -and why should not the truth be spoken—that James ' s translators chd Jittie more ftan copy rne Q cneva Version , which was little more than a transcript from the * cv * sed French which was chiefly borrowed from Pagninus . If any one doubt ;

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    The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version . 381

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/27/