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brew , and -equallywell acquainted with the Holy Scriptures * it would be the highest treat , as likely to be productive of the most beneficial consequences , to find them combating together . For such a conflict Mr . Bellamy may probably long wait in vain I Apologizing for the digression here made from the main object of this letter , which was to exculpate Mr . Bellamy and his friend Sir J . Bland Buries from the undue censure of Mr . Home , I now beg leave to return ta the Baronet .
I have at this moment before me the c < Reasons in Favour of a New Translation of the Holy Scriptures , by Sir James Bland Buries , Bart ., " as also his " Reply to the Rev . Mr . Todd ' s Vindication , " &c . Believe me , Mi \ Editor , I have scrupulously examined every page in both , nay , I have even endeavoured to amuse myself in twisting and turning occasional passages hi them ; but , again , not an expression have I found in either * which , as before said , could be tortured , save by the grossest and most wilful perversion , into ?
an assertion that our present authorized English Version of the Holy Scriptures is totally insufficient for teaching' all things necessary for salvation . This is certainly nothing more than a mere negation on my part ; but , on the other hand , it is opposed to the simple assertion of Mr . Home , who has quoted neither page nor paragraph where the obnoxious expression is to be met with ; as both pamphlets are , however , open to the public , your readers will be best able to judge for themselves , whether Sir James deserves the * censure thus passed on him or not , and by their decision I am very willing to abide . And here , by the way of a second digression , which , however , I apprehend may collaterally aid in proving Mr . Home to have laboured under a grievous mistake when writing as above , I would observe that a perusal of the Baronet's 6
Q Reasons , " &c , will amply repay the unprejudiced reader for his trouble , whilst his short ** Reply to Mr . Todd , " written with all that force of reasoning and critical acumen for which Sir James is eminently distinguished , most satisfactorily assists in proving , amongst the rest ,
1 st . That the Septuagint of our day is not the same which was in use in our Saviour ' s time . 2 nd . That the Vulgate contains numerous instances of mistranslations from the Hebrew , and servile traduetions from the Septua # int . 3 rd . That although in some places our own authorized Version approaches nearer to the true sense of the original than that of Jerome does , yet in an infinite majority of passages it can be regarded no otherwise than as a close translation of the latter , and from its discordance with the original text cannot
possibly have been directly translated from it . As Sir James confirms his assertion of the incorrectness of our authorized Version by the testimony of a number of witnesses , it cannot be wondered at that Mr . Home should come forward also , in opposition to the Baronet , with the list to which allusion has already been made , in support of its general fidelit y , and for the purpose of denying the pressing necessity of a revision .
The evidence on both sides is sufficiently curious to warrant an abridgment of it bein £ given here ; if , therefore , for the better accomplishment of this purpose , the testimony of Mr . Whittaker , in Mr . Home ' s statement , and the assertions of Mr . Todd be set off against those of Mr . Bellamy and Sir James Bland Burges , as being parties alike interested in the decision ; and , if further , the testimony of Selden , as to the mode in which our Version was got up , be omitted on both sides , a concession which Mr . Home may the more readily make , as Selden ' s account rather operates to his prejudice than otherwise , the following may be considered as a pretty fair recapitulation of it :
Sir J . Bland Burges proving the incorrectness of our authorized * ersioity and the necessity of a revision . Bishop Low tk *— " And here I cannot hut mention that nothing wonld more ef * feclually conduce to this end , " ( the
illus-Rev . Mr . Horne in support of the correctness of our authorized Version , and disproving the necessity of a revision . Bishop Lowth . ~~ - The vulgar translation of the Bible is the best standard of our language ,
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Necessity of ' an improved Version of the Sctfpiure * . 20 %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/15/
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