patible with fidelity to the true meaning of the text’ and ‘ varieties which involved inconsistency, and were suggestive of differences that had no existence in the Greek.’ To the former class they professed themselves lenient. Some have thought that they would have acted more wisely if they had made this class more comprehensive, instead of sacrificing so much for a uniformity of render- ing, not always attainable even by themselves.*
_ It may be well, as helping the reader to form a judgment for himself, to set down a short list of passages from the NT in which the rendering of the RV is generally admitted to be an improve- ment, followed by another of passages in which the changes made are considered by many to be
for the worse.
(A) Changes admitted to be for the better.
AV 1611.
Mt 1215 But when Jesus knew it [as if for a time he had not known it].
Mk 4?) Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel... and not to be set on a candle- stick?
Mk 488 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.
Mk 719. . all meats.
. purging
Mk 1042 exercise lordship over them.
Lk 2342 when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Lk 2417 ... as ye walk, and are sad?
Jn 41... made and bap- tized.
Jn 2116 Feed my sheep.
Ac 2327 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him.
Ac 2628 Almost thou _per- suadest me to be a Christian.
Ac 2740 And when they had taken up the anchors, they cominitted themselves unto the sea.
1Co 728 .
ou.
1 Co 95 Have we not power to ee about a sister, a wife
. . but I spare
” ‘Ph 46 Be careful for nothing. 2Th21... by the coming.
1Ti 3138 . . . purchase to themselves a good degree.
1Ti 65... supposing that gain is godliness. 2 Ti 226... who are taken
captive by him at his will [pro- nouns ambiguous].
Tit 112 The Cretians are al- way liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Ja 12... he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work.
(B) Changes n
AY 1611.
Mt 526... till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
RY 1881.
Mt 1215 And Jesus perceiv- ing it.
Mk 421 Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, . . . and not to be put on the stand?
Mk 438 And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
Mk 719 This he said, making all meats clean [xalopiCwy, masc. in N, A, B).
Mk 1022 lord it over them.
Lk 2342 when thou comest in thy kingdom.
Lk 2417, .. as ye walk? And they stood still, looking sad.
Jn4l1... baptizing.
Jn 2116 Tend my sheep.
Ac 2327 This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers, and rescued him.
Ac 2628 With but little per- suasion thou wouldest fain make me a Christian.
Ac 2740 And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea.
1Co 73... spare you.
1 Co 95 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer... .?
Ph 46 In nothing be anxious.
was making and
. and I would
2Th 21... touching the coming. 1Ti 313... gain to them-
selves a good standing.
1Ti 6... supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
2Ti 226... having been taken captive by the Lord’s servant unto the will of God [see also m.].
Tit 122 Cretans are alway liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.
Ja 125... being nota hearer that forgetteth, but a doer that
| worketh,
ot so admitted.
RV 1881.
Mt 526 till thou have paid the last + farthing.
* See the examples of inconsistency in rendering in the RV
collected by Edgar, p. 362.
diDeoxearos is ‘teacher,’
‘doctor,’
‘master’ ; ~épios has four equivalents ; roepananois and orrcy yx yee
each five. to remain. + Gr. éryaroy. the Revisers, characterizes this single verbal alteration has met (Notes on the Translation of the
Of course, some of these are AV renderings allowed
A high authority, Dr. F. Field, himself one of
change as one ‘than which no with more general reprobation 4 NT, 1899, Pref. p. xiv n.).
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VERSIONS (ENGLISH)
VERSIONS (ENGLISH)
AV 1611.
Mt 1382. . . it is the greatest among herbs.
Mk 162. . . they came unto the sepulchre . . .
Lk 5°... we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing.
Jn 172... that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Ac 2137 Canst thou speak Greek?
Ac 2716... we had much work to come by the boat.
Ro 57 Yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Ro 51 For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
1Co 5! It is reported com- monly...
2Co102 ... that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, where- with I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.