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desire . But they flatter themselves that this scrupulous attention to mark the difference between the primate ' s version and their own , and in all cases to introduce into the notes the very words which were omitted or
altered in the text , will allay that laudable anxiety which has been expressed upon the subject by those truly eminent and respectable persons and dignitaries of the established church , who bein < r the nearest relations of the
deceased prelate , are the natural guardians of his theological and literary reputation ; and they trust that it will appear in the event that the publication of the Improved Version , so far from
being injurious to the primate ' s memory , will be the means of giving greater publicity to , and of creating an increasing demand for , his own liberal , learned , and judicious work .
It was incorrect in the editors to state , that in every instance in which either the primate ' s version or their own differs from the re-. ceived text , they had placed the words of the received text at the
bottom of the page . They could only mean the most material instances , and those by which the sense was affected ; for a& it was
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their chief design to enable the English reader to peruse the New Testament with understanding and edification , they never thought of descending to the extreme
minutiae of verbal collation . Upon the whole , the Improved Version may boast without hazard of contradiction , that its text is by far the most correct of any which , have yet appeared in the English
language ; and it may safely appeal to the candid and discerning , that in all points in which the sense is materially , if at all , affected , the text is as correct as the present improved state of sacred criticism will admit . That
it has not pursued-the Griesbach . text into al ] its minutiae of words , letters and points , is sufficiently obvious ; but neither was it the intention of " the editors , as it
could not have been done properly and completely without the sa ^ crifice of what appeared to them an object of far higher importance , and a primary regard to which was their chief inducement
to embark in this important undertaking . I am , Sir , Your humble Servant , One of the Editqrs of the Improved Version ,
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From one of the Editors of the Improved Version . 83
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/35/
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