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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. The Authorized and Revised Versions as Translations. LET us now consider what were the chief faults of the Authorized Version as a mere translation (putting out of sight the question whether the text from which it was translated was correct), and let us take a few examples of each. To enumerate every kind of imperfection which might be pointed out in it, or to illustrate in full whatever imperfections might be chosen for notice, would bo merely to do what has already beon done in the last few years in books of the highest merit, and will probably bo done over again in other books during the next few years. It will be enough to observe the existence of such flaws as made revision imperative, and to justify the assertion that these flaws did exist by a few striking examples of each. Firstly, then, words and entire sentences were sometimes insufficiently rendered, or even misrendered. Greek learning had not been revived in England for much more than an hundred years, and hence it is not to bo woudered at that thero should be such occasional defects in the translation, particularly when the defect consisted in the failure to appreciate the value of some grammatical nicety. For instance, take Matt. i. 17, "from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations." Here the Greek is not simply "Christ" but "the Christ," and this difference, trifling though it may seem to some, has a real importance; the article makes it clear that the evangelist was really thinking of Jesus as the promised Messiah, and not using "Christ" as a mere synonym for "Jesus." So in xi. 2, "when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ," where the Greek has "tho Christ," the article clearly indicates either that John's informants believed Jesus to be...
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