Josiah Conder
Published: 2017-11
Total Pages: 568
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Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 5: January-June, 1831 We are not so sanguine as to imagine that any translation of the New Testament could be executed, which should totally su persede the auxiliary use of note and comment. But to what end have been directed all the labours of our Biblical critics and expositors during the past two hundred years, if the verbal meaning of the inspired writers is not now more satisfactorily ascertained, than it was in the days of King James? Now the only way in which the common people can reap any benefit from the advancement of Biblical criticism, is by having the results consolidated, as it were, in a revised text and perspicuous trans lation, which shall reflect more clearly the scope and spirit of the inspired original. The legitimate end in which all criticism should terminate, would seem to be, the improvement, so far as regards accuracy and perspicuity, of the sacred document which, to millions, is the representative of the original text. It has been said, that every translation is a commentary; and it may be as truly said, that every commentary is only a more difl'use translation; but the less diffuse the better; and in proportion as the accurate meaning of the text is ascertained, and, being ascertained, is unequivocally fixed in the vernacular translation, the necessity for the awkward expedients of paraphrase and commentary will be lessened, and the Scripture become its own interpreter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.