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    phens and Elzevir , the main object of the editors of the Improved Version was to communicate intellectual rather than verbal information : and it was more to

    their purpose to ascertain the meaning of a sentence or a phrase in holy writ , than to correct the spelling of a word or the posi - tion of a crotchet . With them therefore the object of prime consideration was to exhibit the

    best authenticated reading , and the correctest translation of those obscure passages , which , having been corrupted or mistranslated , have been most frequently misunderstoodand 'pealed to in

    , ap support of popular errors . And to these texts they have subjoined notes , to con 6 rm the reading or the translation , and to propose what in their consciences they

    believed to be the true meaning of the sacreti writers . Their design unfortunately does not meet with the approbation of your reviewer . This difference of judgment they regret , but cannot help . That gentleman has his opinion , and the

    editors have theirs . The explanatory and doctrinal notes , which he disapproves , they consider as the most useful part of their undertaking ; and it was their duty to adopt those means which in their judgment most directly led to the attainment of their end .

    It cannot be doubted that a new version of the New Testament by a competent hand , from Griesbach ' s text , minutely noting all the variations from the' received text , and stating the grounds and authorities for those

    variations , is a desideratum in sacred literature , and would be a very acceptable present to the public . Bin this would have been qu ^ te

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    inconsistent with the plan of the Improved Version , as the critical notes must in this case have superseded the exegetical ones , or would have swelled the volume to

    an inconvenient size . It was indeed their desire , as far as it was practicable , to combine the advantages of critical correctness with theological in * struction . With this view they selected the version of archbishop Newcome as the basis of their

    own , and , amongst other reasons , because it was taken from the text of Griesbach ' s first edition . Into this text they introduced those

    variations only which affected the sense , and which are inserted in the interior margin of Griesbach ' s second edition . These , as the learned collator himself

    allows , are comparatively few . But some of them are of considerable importance : for example , Eph . iii . 9 . the words , Ci Jesus Christ / ' which are inserted after the words u who created all

    things , " in Griesbach ' s first edition , are omitted in the second . The variations which the editors were most solicitous to mark , were those of the Improved Version from the primate ' s text , that they might not be chargeable with imputing to the learned prelate renderings or sentiments which were not his own * Here they

    were aware that they stood upon tender ground . And it is satisfactory to find that the sharpsighted coadjutor of your reviewer has been able to detect so few

    errors of this class , which have escaped the vigilance of the editors , and these shall be carefullj corrected in subsequent editions . To satisfy bigots of any description the editors neither expect noi

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    82 Fro ? n one of the Editors of the Improved Version .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/34/