REVISION OF THE BIBLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2128, 17 January 1880, Page 3

REVISION OF THE BIBLE.

*. .The American Company . of t Revisers .of the Authorised Version of the Bible ■haye issued an address ;in which? they Estate that the greater part of the work will be published next year, and that the following were the rules under which the, committees■'bti both sidbs of the' At-' ■ laniic have worked :—l. To introdpeq as few alterations as possible' into the text of the Authorized Version consistently with faithfulness, 2. To limit as /farias tHe» expression ' 'of >sitcli ; alterations to the language, of.thp.au.tlipnr ized or earlier versions. 3. Each Company to go twice over the portion to be revised —once provisionally, the second timeifinally. '4. The;text to he adopted to *bc that for which evidence is decidedly preponderating, and- that ■when the text so adopted differs from thait from which the Authorised Ver- ■ sjon r was made, thg, alteration r dated in ! tlie margin. *5. ' To make no change in the'the; text pn,the-second final revision of each Company, excejff two thirds of those present approve of the same but on the first revision to •decide by simple majorities. G. In every case of proposed, alteration that may have giveri' ! ri. | ?e to &'sdussibn, tb , defer the voting thereon till the next Meeting whensoever the same shall be required by one third of those present ( a£' ifhe meeting, such intended vote .|fb t he-, announced in the notice for r fibe .peXt meeting. 7. To revise the chapters/pagos,'paragraphs, and punctuation. 8. To refer on the part of each Company, when 1 considered desirable, to divines, scholars, ancj literary men, whether at home or „abfpad.|pr their opinions.. ,