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and unprejudiced , must acknowledge , that there was less occasion to change the old version into the present , than to change the-present into a new one * " He adds , that " such an accurate
translation , proved and supported by sound criticism , would silence most of the objections of profane cavillers , and remove the scruples of many pious and conscientious Christians / ' Even in 1731 ,
Blackwall remarks , " what wonderful discoveries and improvements" in biblical criticism ** have been made from the date of our last translation . " At p . 161 , this writer thus begins his 3 d chapter
on the same subject * - "It is with pleasure and fc a just veneration to the memory of our learned and judicious translators , that I acknowledge their version in the main to be faithful , clear and solid .
But no man can be so superstitiously devoted to them , but must own , that a considerable number of passages are weakly and imperfectly , and not a few falsely rendered . "
Blackwall has ihe merit of early exposing that present absurd division of the books of the BibJe into chapters and verses , " whereby , " as he quotes from Mr . Locke ' s preface , " they are so chopped
and minced , and bland so . broken and divided , that not only the common people take the verses usually for distinct aphorisms ; but even men of more advanced
knowledge , in reading them lose very much of the strength and coherence , and the light that depends on it . '" Blackwall adds , 4 When the eye is constantly disturbed with loose sentences , that Sjy their standing and separati on
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appear as so many distinct fragments , the mind will have much ado to take in , and carry on in its memory , an uniform discourse of dependent reasonings ;
especially having from the cradle been used to wrong impressions concerning them , and continually accustomed to hear them quoted as distinct sentences . " P . 126 . He
tlien remarks , that A new division of the sacred book into chapters , sections and periods , might be so contrived and managed as to make a new edition very commodious and beautiful j which would overbalance all inconve .
uiences which superstition and weakness could pretend might arise from alterations ; and make a victorious and speedy way to the favour and full approbation of the world . "
Such , I trust , will be the general acceptance of the proposed translation , and such its rationally connected form . 1 wish the translator had been explicit on this point . He , perhaps , thought itneedless to declarebimself against
a return to barbarism , by the adoption of the form of the common version , which even Mr . Reeves exploded in his verbatim edition of tha , t version . BIBLICUS .
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CH 1 LLINGWORTH . - « The Bible—the Bible only . " No . VI . Truth and Reason . It is no just exception to an argument , to call it vulgar and thread * bare : Truth can neither be too common nor superannuated , nor Reason ever worn out *
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CkillingtDorth . 413
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/29/
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