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the publication of the Improve Version , is at least , an < earnest that another wit h less pretension and of a more popular kind would amply repay itself . On the plan proposed ,- so little remains to be done , that the mere labour would , 1 con - ceive , form uo obstacle to its execution . What available funds there are ; for such an object , I know not ; but they ought to be such as in no way to trench upon the too limited resources of the
Unitarian Association . Were a prospectus to appear , I have no doubt of ample means being forthcoming , and iu no better hands could they be placed thau in those of the trustees of an Improved Version , already appearing iu the list of officers appended to the Reports of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association .
Our brethren in Ireland , iu the first report of the ** Unitarian Christian Society" there , state , *• that the theological information which they seek to diffuse must meet with serious obstructions so long as the Authorized Version of the Scriptures continues to be the final , appeal of the English reader in matters of controversy . " The state of the funds of this infant Society at present prevents the attempt at a corrected version , ati
object the Committee have much at heart . Why caujuot we help our weaker brethren ? Why not unite and do that , once for all , which shall add lustre to the Unitarian name , and be an inestimable service to enlightened believers wherever found ? Such a work , proceeded in with the concurrence and cooperation of the leading ministers of both Associations , would be a bond of union , strong and imperishable .
1 will no longer occupy your valuable pages thau to express the earnest hope that uo inferior considerations may interpose to prevent the speedy fulfilment of the most important trust now left confided to the hands of Unitarian * .
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On an Improved Version of the Scriptures . To the Editor . Sir , While pursuing my theological inquiries , I have , among . other books , frequently looked into a translation of the
New testament published some years ago -by the Unitarians . This , though certainly an Improved Version in comparison with the Received Text , is still to be considered ( as indeed its own preface hints ) an Improvable Version . My opinion that the translation might be
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very much mended in : many important particulars , and might , in its general style , to the great relief of unlearned readers and the lasting benefit of religion , be rendered compatible with modern English idiom , has been confirmed by the perusal of an old " Essay on the Bible , " which I picked up lately at a book-stall .
Among many excellent suggestions which it contains is the following : " We find in all Versions a fault which borders oil blasphemy . The disciples of our Saviour , or his nearest relations , are represented as going to lay hands on him , and saying , He is beside himself . Mark iii . 21 . Some interpreters , seeing that this is injurious to our Saviour , think
the words may be rendered , He is in a swoon ; others attribute this saying to his enemies ; others , that it signifies only , He is gone out . But all this is not capable to remove the difficulty ; we must , therefore , consider that St . Matthew , relating the same history , observes that it was the multitude who were
beside themselves , and ravished with admiration at the sight of our Saviour ' s miracles ; and St . Luke makes the same remark , employing a word which signifies to be ravished with admiration . This verse then should be translated , * ' Those who belonged to him , seeing this , went out to suppress them ( the multitude ) , for they said , They are beside themselves . "
In this , Sir , you may see that there is nothing militating against idiomatic or grammatical construction ; since ocvtqv may well stand for the noun of multitude © % Xo < , while fifcr *? may refer to o % Ko ^ as its subject , and be fairly translated , as by the Essayist , in the plural number . Besides , vers . 1 !) and 20 imply , that Jesus and his twelve elect had just gone
into a house , when the © % Xo $ thronged them so that ccvrcv <; ( Jesus and his apostles ) could not take the refreshment for which they entered the house . How then could 6 * irotp * ocvto or 7 T £ p * ctvrw , with whom , as the words imply he then was in-doors , go out to check or constrain him ? I might say more on this as well as other passages , but I will not be redundant or prolix .
While pending this scrap , I beg to inquire whether , from the silence of your correspondents and yourself on the subject of my last , I am to infer that my hints on the non-authorization and inexpediency of «« Reveretid Individuals " ( to use the term of G . P . H . ) are substantial ; and , if so , whether it be not the duty as well as the interest of the Unitarian body to relinquish their present system and adopt that simple , cfti-
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558 Mhdellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/54/
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