An Introduction to the New Testament, Volume 13

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Cassell, 1883 - Bible - 200 pages
 

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Page 82 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Page 88 - Of the translation itself, though since that time it has been many times revised and altered, we may say that it is substantially the Bible with which we are all familiar. The peculiar genius — if such a, word may be permitted — which breathes through it — the mingled tenderness and majesty — the Saxon simplicity — the preternatural grandeur — unequalled, unapproached, in the attempted improvements of modern scholars — all are here, and bear the impress of the mind of one man — William...
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Page 176 - ... 4. That in such necessary changes, the style of the language employed in the existing Version be closely followed. '•'5. That it is desirable that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision, who shall be at liberty to invite the co-operation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong.
Page 190 - A Series of Works by Eminent Divines. Bound in cloth, red edges, One Shilling each. MY BIBLE.
Page 104 - Or suppose if, instead of the words which we read at Heb. xiii. 16, namely, "to do good and to communicate forget not ; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased...
Page 181 - Authorised and earlier English Versions. ' 3. Each Company to go twice over the portion to be revised, once provisionally, the second time finally, and on principles of voting as hereinafter is provided.
Page 129 - sober and watchful/' because their adversary, the devil, was " like a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour," speaks of the experience of one who had been told that Satan desired to have him that he might " sift him as wheat
Page 156 - When two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female.
Page 175 - That a Committee of both Houses be appointed, with power to confer with any Committee that may be appointed by the Convocation of the Northern Province, to report upon the desirableness of a revision of the...

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