Statement and Examination of all the material Passages which may be supposed to be misinterpreted," though short, is full to the point. It is wholly directed against Mr. Bellamy's proposals for publishing a new Translation of the Bible. The chief part of this well-written tract is occupied in a critical examination and refutation of Mr. Bellamy's Version of, and note on, 2 Kings, v. 18., which the latter had chosen as his palmary* proof of the incorrectness of the authorized Version: and it concludes by showing that Mr. B's Version cannot answer the end proposed, viz. the refutation of Deism; that the plan is very defective, and at the same time too expensive for a work of general utility.

That a complete correction of our authorized English Version is an object of desire to the friends of religion, we readily admit; but that it is a work of pressing necessity,—or that the existing translation is faulty in innumerable instances, and ambiguous and incorrect even in matters of the highest importance, or that sacred criticism is yet so far advanced as to furnish all the means that may be expected, we hesitate not to deny. So pernicious must it be (especially in these times), frequently to agitate and unsettle the minds of men on these subjects, that we should hope this task, whenever it shall be again performed, may be completed for ever. In the mean time, when we consider the very few REAL faults, which the most minute and scrupulous inquirer has been able to find in our present translation; when we perceive such distinguished critics as Archbishop Newcome and Bishop Horsley (to mention no more), producing very discordant interpretations of the same text or word, we cannot but call to mind, with gratitude and admiration, the integrity, wisdom, fidelity, and learning of the venerable translators, of whose pious labours we are now reaping the benefit; who, while their reverence for the Sacred Scriptures induced them to be as literal as they could, to avoid obscurity, have been extremely happy in the simplicity and dignity of their expressions, and who, by their adherence to the Hebrew idiom, have at once enriched and adorned our language. And instead of being impatient for a revision of the present text, we shall (to adopt the energetic expression of Mr. Todd) take up THE BOOK, which from our infancy we have known and loved, with increased delight; and resolve not hastily to violate, in regard to itself, the rule which it records,-" FORSAKE NOT An OLD FRIEND, FOR THE NEW IS NOT COMPARABLE TO HIM."

* Not palmarian, as the anonymous author has erroneously written.

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