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bratsms ¥ tiHHfef 0 ugh the writings of the New Testarrjerit , that even these divine oracles cannot be accurately understood , nor the anomalies of their style explained , without ^> rue khowiecJgfof Hebrew literatim-. " Ii the year 1792 , Bishop Newcome published , * A Review of the Cl ^ ef Difficulties in
the Gospel Hisiory relating to our Lord ' s Resurrection : intended to let ! act some Errors contained in the Author ' s Greek Harmony , and 16 shew that Dr . Benson ' s Hypothesis is satisfactory , " quarto . In this piece , which displays a very
Uftcoir . nron spirit of openness and Candour , biblical scholars are presented with a rational and perspicuous elucidation of a difficult arid important part of the evangelical writings , accompanied with learned and useful notes .
Anotht-r valuable work with which Dr . Newcome favoured the public in the year 1792 , is entitled , ** An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations : the
Expediency of Revising by Au-Abrity our present Translation ; and the Means of executing such a Revision , " octavo . The first chapter into which this work is divided , contains a history of the English versions of the Bible from Wirkliff to James I . which is
cftiCily an abridgment of Lewis s tl Complete History of the several "Translations of the Holy Bible and . Kew Testament into English , " &ct but more- distinct and judicious than that work , and abounding in more useful
information-Yhvsecond chapter presents us with a methodical and entertainin ? view of 4 < such authorities as have occurred on the subject of o&r authorized version ; whether iBfey consider i * s merit or demerit ,
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the propriety or i&ftfB ^ efy -&f recommitting it to theanvil . * ' Tfee third chapter cotisists o # satfsf&e * tory answers to the brdinary objections to an hnproved tfefsidh of the Bible , which the bfshbp ha $
delivered partly ill his 6 wh Words and partly iii the \ v 6 fcfe df tht authorities before inttoduced by him * In the fourth chapter , Dr . Newcome brinos fbt \ vkrd "bis at *
gumetits to shew the exjjediencjr of an improved version ; of ' winch , the principal are , thfe flux nature of living languages , atid the V& $ t accession to the bibfffrai ajipamttos which has Beierl furnished shicfe
the period when the pr £ &e'frf vfefc * sion was executed . Tbe "ictSft chapter contains rul ^ s fdf
cdttducting an improved version tit the Bible which tie ^ e ^ fis&il 16 his version of the minor proplfet ^ with considerable enrfafgeWeh t ^ and additional illustratfons fVdlri
later critics . Td the ivtole fe added a list of the Varfofts ^ dilfefrs of the Bible , arid parts * T » f tte Bible , in English , from l $ m 1 b 1776 . Ori the itopdrtmtte W& value of such a perforitaaA ^ e ^ % k "»
ecuted by an author ib ^ feH ^ fO ^ lified by his ^ tiidiHo hy '<' ' % i 6 ri «! ill knowledge , tihd spirit 6 f C ^ r " eRif , dispassionate ericj [ ti i ¥ y ^ ^ s D r . N ^ e # - come , it is not -ir&cesgkry to mak ^ e the least observation .
On the twenty-fifth of Jaiiuaty 5 1795 , under the aclVftihistrattoli of Earl FittfrilliAm , our ptelkte was raised to the ftig ; he ^ t : dig'rfity in the Irish ehufbk ,- ' by fieittg
translated from Wtttefford to t $ e archiepiscopal see of Aritfag * b ; ' 4 & - cant by the death of Dr /' Rlifflfffid Robihson , Lord Rokeby , i p ¥ imiile of all Ireland . On thife ^ c ^ ttiWn he had to hdvatice to th ^ ft ^ ffe t ) f &fe * 3 # e < tectfttfr th ^ lU ^ k sWrti ^) f
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2 $ 0 MeMdir 6 f Archbishop N&uft&m * *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/4/
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