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were enriched by the publication of his i € Attempt towards revising our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures , or the New Covenant of Jesus Christ * and
towards illustrating the Sense by Philological and Explanatory Notes , " in two volumes , large octavo . This work was printed
so long ago as the year 1796 , but was reserved for publication till after the author ' s death , because he was unwilling , at his advanced period of life , to engage in the controversies to which his altera
tions of the commonly received version might give rise . In the preface he informs us , that when be first undertook this design , his intention extended no farther than
to improve our authorized translation of the Greek scriptures , following the text of Griesbach ' s excellent edition , except in a few instances , the reasons for which deviations the work itself will
suggest . After having concluded this task , with as much attention and labour as itsimportance demanded , he was convinced that his plan would be very defective , unless
he subjoined a comment to the text of such an important and difficult book . He , therefore , engaged in a second labour of selection and abridgment from a body of notes which he had
formed , or compiled , with occasional additions supplied by able commentators , or by his own study of the sacred writings . To biblical scholars this work will prove of great use , as affording them a
variety of elucidations of obscure passages in our common translation , pithy and apposite remarks , and a judicious compressed collection of valuable criticisms , either borrowed from the works of ¦ ¦• .. -1 .. i . ¦ . ¦ » * . j *
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other writers , or suggestedHby the author ' s own inquiries and ireflections . The -same excellent prelate had also employed much time and application on a- similar t
; Attempt towards ^ revising our English Translatioja ^ f the Hebrew Scriptures ; '' ami , he ~ bequeathed his interleaved Bible , in four volumes folio , containing the result of his labours , to the
archiepiscopal library at Lambeth palace . Through the favour of the archbishop ' s brother , the late Mr . Robert Newcome , we were indulged with the perusal of these volumes , while they were on their
passage towards the place where they are now deposited ; but with a promise exacted that no risan « script should be made from iki-m , which was most sacredly observed Though his remarks and criticisms have not been carried to the ^ ex *
tent which the author intended 9 had his life been prolonged ± o a later period , yet they will be found numerous , and frequently very important ; and w ^ bops tbat some person properly qualified -for
the task * will be permitted : to serve the cause of sacred literature , by communicating them to . the public . Mr % RoUeitt Newjcome also , soon after the archbishop ' s death , favoured us with the
perusal of a memoir of th « MLprelate ' s life , drawn up by himself , and iii his own hand writing ; in which he gave an interesting > accoijn $ < & the progress of his studies , and of his sentiments relative to
characters and opinions which have occasioned much discussion in the theological world . Xtyat ' menaoit , we were given to understand , wias to be 11 an sin i tied to Dtv Stock , Bishop or Killuiu , and to remain at hjp disposal . Witkany further
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262 MempirqfArchbishap Nev ^^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/6/
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