We may see from these few instances that it is vain to hope that a standard edition of the English Bible will be soon forthcoming; and still more vain to dream that the desired object has been attained already. That manyimprovements have been made upon the Revision of 1885, none would wish to deny. It is reasonable to anticipate that, when the next Revision is accomplished on this side the Atlantic, it may in its turn show a superiority in some respects over that of 1901. But the and. to be kept in view is not that the scholars of the two countries should pass and repass each other ‘adversi spatiis,’ but that they should advance ‘facta pariter nunc pace.’ The aspiration to which utter- ance was given in the Preface to the Joint-Revision of the NT in 1881, is not yet, we trust, out of season—that the labours of the fellow-workers, ‘thus happily united, may be permitted to beara blessing to both countries, and to all English- speaking people throughout the world.’
* *In concluding this article, the writer desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to his sons (espe- cially the Rev. J. M. Lupton, assistant master in Marlborough College) for much valuable help in the course of it.
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