Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Brief Review of the New Revision: An Address Delivered Before the Maine State Conference of Congregational Churches, June 16, 1881
I will close with two old cautions which lave not lost their appropri ateness. Lay to heart the words of dear old William Tyndale in the preface to his revised N. T. Of 1534: (the spelling is modernized) If any man find fault either with the translation or ought beside, which is'easier for many to do than so well to have translated it themselves, (if their own pregnant wits at the beginning without forensample; to the same it shall be lawful to translate it themselves, and to put what they lust thereto. Lay to heart also the story which Isaac Walton tells us: that Dr. Richard Kilbye one of the company of the Revisers of the Authorized Version heard accidentally a young preacher dis cussing the New Version and giving three reasons why a particular word should have been translated di?erently. He told him that the Revisers had considered those three reasons and seven more on the same side, but had found thirteen stronger reasons on the other side for translating as they did. The moral of this is too painfully evident to need pointing.
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