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    On an improved Version of the New Testament . 27

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    Where any custom can be easily and ? fully . understood by the English reader , either the exact translation of the expression founded upon it should be employed , or at least an expression perfectly consistent with it . ( £ would extend this rule farther , but foresee that even in its" limited application it is liable to some objections . ) For instance , the ancient posture at meals may be easily understood ; why not give an exact translation of the words employed to denote it ? I observe Dr . Symonds objects to thiSj and even approves rendering them " sitting , " Newcome has taken a more guarded plan ; and if-the exact translation be not adopted , his mode is surely netft to be preferred . The literal translation should in all such cases be scrupulously noticed in the margin .

    The right management of the connectives terms a very im «* portant part of the translators duty . In our language , juxtaposition is a continually occurring mode of connection : it was not the mode of the Greek and Latin languages ; and even their sentences were almost alway united by connective words * These should be always translated ; but the meaning should be varied to suit the kind of connection , unless any word can be found in English of equal extent with the original . K ** and £ s are continually employed for . a | most every kind of connect

    tion ; and has the same generic ^ signification , but is not susceptible of the same specific application ; and that less general connective should be employed , which better suits the exigen * eies of the situation . Without diminishing the exactness of the translation , this would g ive it more energy , because more intelligibility . F Ǥ has a less extensive application ; but much more than our fory which , as every reader of Home Tooke knows , always means cause . What the connective is whicht must supply its place in given instances , must be left to be determined by the known usage of the particular writer , of the

    iNevv 1 estament writers , or of the Greek writers in general ; ut , it seems necessary to perspicuity and force , to give the appropriate English connective , provided it is authorized by known usage . This is frequently neglected by Newcome . The grammatical usages of our language should be rigidl y observed . This will direct to a change in Newcome ' s employment of an and thine before words in which the h is sounded . The unpleasant soujid , an house , is continually occurring-Perhaps to the same head may be referred his employment of the relative , in such cases as the following— cc He saith to the commander , May I speak to thee ? Who said , &x / ' It surely should be , * And he said / '&c . Every person conversant with the Greek and Latin l ^ nguages , knows that the relative in iu

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/27/