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    translation ^ thotigh stitl defective in many , points , Is incontestably better than that of its predecessors , and that , in paVticula ' r , the books of Job , the Psalms and Isaiah are acknowledged to be greatly superior to all the other

    F rench translations . Though opposed by the * Trinitarians * from the first moment of its publication , ( afo . important admission , which it is of consequence to remark , ) it is not to be supposed that learned and able theologians would have admitted ' grave 1

    alterations , without being supported by authentic manuscripts . If decried by the . Bible Society of Geneva , it is held in such estimation " in England , that it is the only French Bible which is sought after in this country . We have some reasons for doubling the accuracy of this latter assertion , " &c .

    The Reviewer proceeds to speiak of an edition published by the Bible Society in England , irrtended apparently to oppose the Geneva Bible ; this latter I have not compared , and can say nothing of it $ but that all " Trinitarians" did not " oppose 11 the new Genevese Vertfioh , «« from the

    first * " I have good proof , and such as the British ' Critic will not , I think , be disposed to undervalue . Mon . Abauzit , minister oT the French Conformist Church of St . Martin ' sOrgain ^ in Cannon-street , London , shewed

    me , while he was preparing for the press , aboat ten years since , his nevv translation of the Liturgy , a copy of the Genevese Bible , of which he spoke in the highest terms of eulogy . I was at the time a Trinitarian , as well as that gentleman himself , and bis orthodoxy will scarcely be questioned , while it is known that he was the

    protege of the lute Bishop Porteus . When his new Prayer Book appeared , he gave his sentiments to the public in an " AvertissenffenV' in which he speaks of fh £ " etninent service " which religion has received from the " ' pastorfc atid professors of the Church of Geneva , " calls it a " complete

    version , which , according to the most enlightened suffrages , is infinitely superior to the old orre . " Acting agreeably to these views he gives the gospels , Epis « es , Psalms V < J Sentences of Scripture , ( tlVfrom the Ne * v Version , irrfonriirtgliis ' readers df" the great advantages which thfence resttlt

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    as it Regards both the beauty of { he sense anld nobleness of the style . " * * Extract from the AvetbUsefbeni \> tefixed to " La LhuTgie , on Foramiaire &es Prieres P « "bl iques , selon F Usage : de rfEgtise Anglicaae , '—a Londres ehes Scatcherd et Letterman , &c . 1811 *

    "_ Les Eg-lises Francoises Conformis ^ es etabli ^ s en Angleterre se ser . ve . nt dans le culte public , de 3 a Liturgie An ^ licaiifB , d apres nne traduction qus , pour le slyle etoit bien inferieuie a T origin | al . " La partie la plus imprtrtante etoit malheureusement la plus detfeetiieiisre . Dans tows les passages tkes des Livres

    Saints , on av ^ it a-peu-pr&s suivi Pancienne Version de la Bi 1 ) Ie . Version sauvelit iryexacte pour ie sens , toujowrs surannee pour le langage , xemplie d ' expressions qui par laps de temps sont devenues triviales ou meme g * rossieres . On ne s ^ en ^ tonneva pas si Ton considere qne les deux Versions de laBiblejfaites d ' apres

    leTexte Hebreu paries Eglises Reformees sont du 16 e . si £ cle , la premiere de 1535 , ia seconde de 1568 , e ' est-a-dire a ^ atvt la publication d' aucun des ouvrag-e « qui ont fixe la Jang-ue Fraii £ oise . Ce snjet de reg-ret a cesse d ' exister . Les Litres Sacres nous ont ete presentes dans une forpne qui De les altere plus : la religion est redevable de cet eminent service aux ^

    Pasteurs et Professeurs d ' Efflise de Geneve . Us ont profile de toutes les luniieres qui dans cet intervallede deux si ^ cles , sesont repandties sur la critique sacriee , cotnme r etude plusapprofondie des langues Orientates , —la collation d ^ &rtoietis

    maniisctits , —les v o 3 ^ ag * es faitif dan s les pa ys memes qn' avoieut habitee les EcriraJms S acres , —la . cannoissance des lie «^ , de « lois , des couturnes , des moeius , et les progves de diverses sciences , qui ont indirectement servi a V eclairqissement des Livres

    Saints . C est avec tous ces secours et un zelea . les employer , digne de F importance du sujet que TEglise de Geneve a enfin publie en 1605 , une Version complete qifi , d ' apres 5 les « uffrag-es les plus 6 cIain ' s , est infinimejit suptfrieure a l uncien > ne . Nous nous sontmes preva > lu d un si . grand avan ^ ta «* e dans I edition que nous doanons

    aujoiir 4 ' hui de cette Liturgi « . Evangiles ^ Epitres , ' Pseaumes , Sentences , nrows avons tout emprunte de la iioiivelle Version . Nous I ' avons gen ^ ralement suivis Hans les an ties passages , tiiresde nos J Livres 'Sain ts . f On s * apercev ra par t , o \ i td u grand

    avanrta «* e qiii en resulte pour In hetxtitfr da sens et lii noblesse du Style . Oe travail est * l ir de oontribuer & r ^ d ificalien coin - jnune et « ta porter a la Iccftwte de laxBfblo ui ^ ine ; par les / rag ^ nens adiuiraoles qti '^ ii en trouve ici . —

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    " Britigh ^ iH ^ - '&n Wm Uiiiiaii , t ^ m at Geneva . 607

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/15/