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* Itiffliwepakte instances may tfe shewn ia the Engtlsfe 8 ib > of / a ? ## transit tiom of th $ divine originate wfrich either weaken its sense , or debase and tarnish the beauty of its language . " * f A new translation can . give no offence
to people of sound judgment and eppsideration ; because every J > o 4 y cony ^ rsaat in these matters , and imptejadiced , myst acknowledge that Here tv < $ s l $ ss occasion to change the old versjtirfi mtq the present , than to change the present i&to a new one . " Dr . DurelL— " The Version now in use
certainly does not exhibit in many places the sense of the text , and mistakes it , besides , in an infinite number of instances . It may justly be questioned , whether any possible sense can , by fair interpretation , be deduced from the words , in not a few places . " i €
By a new translation , the caviller , the sceptic and the deist would find the sharpest and most trusty arrows of their quiver blunted . '
Dr . Symonds . — Whoever examines our Version in present use , with the least degree of attention , will find that it is ambiguous and incorrect , even in matters of the highest importance . Experience teaches us that mistakes in religion are of all others the most pernicious ; not <> nly because they affect us in the most important concerns , but as they are the jnost difficult to be corrected : ami it
might almost be questioned , whether it would not be safer to take the Bible out of the hands of the common people ^ than to ( wpose them to the danger of drawing false conclusions from e ^ 'o ^ gus transla
tions ; for it is (( op / blless r ^ uch worse to he misled than to be igriornnf " The ambiguities in pic ? JSqrsion are very numerous , qnd sometipies too gross to be defended . "
which ought upon all occasions to h * we been religiously retained , have put the more general name of Lord . A flagrant instance of this occurs in that solemn proem of the Decalogue in the xxth chapter of Bivodns , &c . ; and another example of the same miliappy alteration is to be found in the cxth Psalm , " &C .. &C on ' the Preface to nis Family Expositor ^ Dr . Doddridge has observed , that " the ^> ia Testament has suffered much more than the New in our translation , "
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. $ i $ h $ P ^ aa ^ j ^^ fJ ^ M ^ of f pi £ sen £ v ^ rsip ni is incpjtn parably superior tQ any tjfring wji * qh OTgfrt' be expected jfroni t ^ e finical and perverted taste o etui * p ^ n age * It is ' sirnjle , ft is efierge ^ | rjc ; aiflji w ^ ^ ' *? of yp » sm ^ ll in ^ pQ ^ ta ^ ici p , ^^ Jji ( ^ -sf made % iaim ^ jp , &nd tim ^ Jias re 4 ^ P ^ ^ sacref }/* " '
Dr . Gedtfes .- — " The pighesj ; euloguuns have been made on t ^ translation of Janies the First , l ^ Qth fey pur pwr * writers and foreigners- And , indeed , if acctiracy , fidelity , and the strictest attention to the letter of tl ^ e tex t be supposed to constitute the qualities of au excellent Versiou ,
this of all versions must , in general , be accouqtexl th $ most excellent . Every sentence , every > yord , every syllable , every letter aud point seentto have been weighed yvith the nicest exactitude , and expresses either in the text or margin with . the greatest precision , Pagniuus himself is Jiardly napre literal ; aud it was well remarked by Rob ^ tson , above a hundred
years ago , tjiat it ? n@M serve for a lexicon of the ffebryw language , as well as for a trcmslfttiqn . " tyr . i > oddr } dge * -T * * ' On a diligent comparison of our translation with the
original , we find that of the ptew Testament , and , I might also add , that , of the Old , in the maiu faithfui and judicious * You know , Jncjescii , tjiat we do not scruple on some pccasi ° ns ^ ° WW ^ dvert upon it ; but vou also know- that these remarks
aifect not the fundamentals of religion , aad seldpm reach any further than the beauty of a figure , or , at jmost , the cpiu nexion of an argument , " *
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