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year , * I pointed out two remark - able instances in which the ob * jector had seen fit to rebuke without previously understanding . I shall now only add , that , had the case required it , the illustration might have been raude in many similar examples .
ThefJogusfl&m content to leave in the bands of one of the editors , and in those of Primitives , whose observations on the force of G £ , ( the reading in Griesbach ' s text of 1 Tim , iji . 16 . ) are confirmed by Michaelis- t . It is- remarkable enough , that while your reviewer |> &mcs the editors for their ojecasional departures from Grtesbacji , Theologus accuses them of implicitly following this guide , \ vh 4 o , < c though not blind - was often in the dark . " It is still more
curious to perceive , that , in one place , Thcologus expresses great regret , that the editors did not use the confidence which their abilities most justly claimed in producing an entirely new trans * lation ;§ while , in another , he intimates , that they are deficient in sound critical talents \\\ One of your correspondents , who signs himself a country schoolmaster ^ ( vol . iv . 260 , ) complains , that terms and phrases are retained in the Improved Version , which the bulk of readers naay consider as unfavourable to Unitarianism . But his complaint is really an
eulogium on the fidelity of the editors , who are desirous ttyat their readers judge of Scripture from its sense , rather than its sound . Whether it w # s adviceable , that the work should con-¦ ¦ i i . '
? Mon . Rep . vol . iv- p . 35 . + Mon . Rep , vol . iii * pp # 671 , &c . $ Introd . -&c . ( March ' sTrans . ) vol . ii . p . cio # § Vol . iii . 671 . I VpJ . iv . 95 .
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116 Estimate of Strictures on the Improved Version .
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tain any doctrinal notes , is a question which I shall not now discuss . However , I will remind
the country schoolmaster that it is one thing to translate the Scriptures , and another to paraphrase and expound them . Your reviewer of the Improved Version has executed his office with very comntendable diligence , - faithfulness and candour : and , whenever a new edition \ $ , called
for , I trust that . adv ^ ita ^ e will be taken of sprite ot his friendly hints . Oi the critiques which have hitherto ^ ppeanejl upon the work r ' I . regard this a $ best-. eh * titled to attention . Hejice , I shall heg leave to accoflnp&iiv thia writer in hk remairks ;? prajci pally , with the view of shewing where ^ and 011 what grounds * my conclusions differ frp-ioi bis ?
He wishes tliat tbje common translation had been adopted as the basispf the Improved Version , and -Newcorae ' s 9 S the general guide hi correcting it . 5 Jow it it may be sufficient to answjer thfkt qf the English translations af the New Testament , which have toeeu published from l 6 ll down to 1801 , noee is equal to Njewcome ' s for an union of simplicity ai&d-fidelity . With more correctness and precision than tbc ^ . utltorisjed version , and with Uae advantage
of a more accurate text , it has the merit of retaining--more , of the style and manner of this translation than aj > y former publication of the kind * 4 important point was therefore gained by the se * lection of such a work as the basis of an improved version ; especially
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/12/
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