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( Rev . Mr . Horne . )
Dr . Adam Clarke . — " Those who have compared most of the European translations with the original , have not scrupled to say that the English translation of the Bible , made under the direction of King James the First , is the most accurate and faithful of the whole . Nor is this its
only praise : the translators have seized the very spirit and soul of the original ^ and expressed this almost every where with pathos and energy * Besides , our translators have not only made a standard translation ; but they have made their translation the standard of our language : the English tongue was not equal to such a work—but God enabied them to stand
as upon Mount Sinai , and crane up their country ' s language to the dignity of the originals , so that after the lapse of two hundred years the English Bible is , with very few exceptions , the standard of the purity and excellence of the English tongue . The original * from which it was taken , is alone superior to the Bible translated by the authority of King James /*
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( Sir J . Blajmd Barges . ) torum vigUias aifulsit , his 150 annis proxiine elapsis ante quos confecta est Anglica Versio . Et quis refragetur hones- * tissima petitioni ? Archbishop Newcome . —~ * Let any
competent scholar study the Bible in the original tongues , and then pronounce whether our authorized Version is not capable of amendment and improvement in numberless places , many of which must be considered as very important J *
** U is my full persuasion , that whatever tends to the perfection of our Establishment , would not shake it , but give it splendour , strength and security ; and that a version of the Scriptures , as
accurate as the united learning of the present age could make it , would reflect the highest Honour on our National Church , and hold a distinguished place among those treasures which would fix it on a basis as firm as truth , virtue and Christianity . "
* ' The arguments of the Deists are either general speculative objections , or absurdities imputed to the Sacred Writings . Many difficulties of the latter class are superficial ones , arising from an ignorance of the original languages , and would vanish from the text by Judicious render " ings . "
« Were a version of the Bible executed rn a manner suitable to the undertaking , such a measure would have a direct tendency to establish the faith of thousands , to open their understandings , to warm their hearts , to enliven their devotion s . * and to delight their imaginations , "
Now , let the candid and unbiassed reader examine the authority of the witnesses here produced on both sides , and the nature of their testimony ; let him , at the same time , remember that the witnesses quoted by Sir J . Bland Burges are the same whom Archbishop Newcouie has brought forward to establish the necessity of a new translation of the Holy Scriptures , or , at least , of a revisal of our authorized Version ,, but whom Mr . Todd , the Librarian of the present Archbishop of Canterbury , and Mr . Horne , the Curate of Christ ' s Church and St . Leonard ' s , have thought proper to call in to their assistance
to prove the very reverse , and surely he cannot for a moment doubt on which side there must be a great mistake . That Mr . Horne , in attemptingto shew that our authorized Version needs no revisal , should rest mainly on the evidence of an Arian , a Deist , ( whom he taxes with " bold and unmeasured assertions , " and whose Version and Commentaries he censures as " heterodox /*) and two Dissenters , appears contrary to all etiquette , and to betray an error , a grave mistake in judgment . That he should further have regarded the circumstance of a man ( who t € though skilled in the Hebrew tongue , possessed little or no judgment in that or any other kind of learning / ' ) not
having pointed out the thousand errors in our authorized Version , which he asserted it contains , or have considered a string of eulogiums on the style of it , as positive testimonies in favour of its fidelity as a translation , are mistakes which cannot fail to strike every one who reads the evidence he brings forward under the sanction of Bishops Walton , Lowth , Horsley , Middleton and others ; and , that he should gravely add his eleven testimonies to those which he says have been previously collected by Archbishop Newcotne and Mr . Todd , only further proves ( what , indeed , any reader of his valuable compilation will not
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Necessity of am Improved Version of the Scriptures . 2 H
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/19/
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