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Tenterden , Sir , 4 pW / 12 , 1822 . MEETING by accident , a few days since , with an old English
translation of the Bible , bearing the date of 1553 , I was led to examine some parts of it ; and particularly the passage in 1 John v . 7 , respecting the three witnesses . It appears to be Tindal ' s translation , although it has not his name . What , indeed , is called
Cranmer ' s Bible , appears to have been only this translation of Tindal's , revised and corrected by the Archbishop , and afterwards b y Tonstal and Heath , Bishops of Durham and Rochester ; but these versions appear to have been at that time promiscuously used in churches . The Psalter in the
Common Prayer-Book is taken verbatim from Tindal's . The chapters are not divided into verses , but into short paragraphs . Respecting the words above referred to , I found the following printed in a different and much smaller character or type from the rest of the chapter :
( For there are three which beare rewrde in heaven , the Father % y JVord and the Holy Gostf and these thre ar one : )" and , as I have done , put in a parenthesis ; an intimation , I conclude , that the translator considered the passage J * s at least doubtfulif not spurious .
, This is the more valuable as the translation was made in the infancy of the Reformation . Query : Does Wicklifl * s translation make the same distinction ? Church ig invariably translated conation
greg- . Iti ] Tito . iii . 6 , 7 , Devil is translated evil speaker . In 1 Cor . Xlu ., charity is translated love throughout . This is the rendering- of the Improved Venion . Allow me to give you , from the
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atiove Version , the Introduction of St . John ' s Gospel , to the 14 th verse , as it may amuse some of you * readers , and as a part of it seems to be not reconcileable with the translator ' s considering the Word there mentioned as , strictly speaking , a person . "In the beginninge was the Worde , and the Worae was with God : God was the Word . The same was in the beginninge with God . All thinges were made by it , without it was made nothinge that was made . In it was life , and the life was the ligkte of meiine ; and the light shineth in darknesse , and the darkness comprehended it not . < € There was sente from God a man
whose name was John . The same carne as a witness , to beare witness oi the light , that all men thrugh him might beleve . He was not the light : but was sente to beare witness of y * lighte . That light was the true light , which lighteth every man that cometh into the worlde . He was in the
worlde , and the worlde was made by him 5 and the world knewe him not . € t He came among his owtie , and his own received him not . But as manie as received him , to them gave he power to be the sonnes of God -i even them that beleved on his name :
which were borne , not of bloode nor of the will of the fleshe , nor yet of the will of men ,, but of God * "And tho same Woord Ixeeame neshe and dwelt among us : and we saw the glory of it , as the glory of y * only begotte 8 onne of Ulie Farther , full of grace and truth . " "
I have strictly adhered to the spel * ling , and have only to observe farther * that the same Greek verb in the above which is translated made in the 3 rd verse , and born in the 13 th , is applied in our Saviour ' s conversation with Ni ~ codemus to the New Birth > John iik 3 . How will the 14 verses of the 1 st chapter read , as applicable to the new
moral creation of the world by Christ Jesus in righteousness and true ; holiness ! " Behold , I make all things new" Rev . xxi . 5 . L . HOLDEN . ^ mm
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" ^ Sir , Penzance . IN your number for April la » t , ( pp . 211 , 212 , ) you were so good as to admit a paper of mine relating to the remission of &ms : according to an in ** timation 1 , then gave , I will now , witk
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Passages from TiruihVk Translation of the Bible . 533
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is e * presseid , witH a prostrate mind and understanding , neither suggesting nor answering questions of that nature .
U . —It is not every question that expects an answer ; but , you will not deny that the use of the plural pronouns would be consistent with the fact you assume of a plurality of
persons . T . —But , how would such a reading sound ? U . — -Ay , how indeed ! BREVIS ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 523, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/3/
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