This is plainly not an oversight in 1662, for the Revisers altered the words of the note in the Preface, without changing the sense.
There was a "careful selection of revisers made by some unknown but very competent authority.
The chief object of the reviserswas to eliminate misunderstandings and to replace ambiguous and dark terms with clear ones.
Of course, the Epitome, prepared by Andreae, was also examined and approved by the revisers at Cloister Bergen.
At the last meeting of the six revisers (at Bergen, in May) the Solid Declaration was quickly and finally agreed upon, only a few changes of a purely verbal and formal nature being made.
But is it fair in the Revisers (we modestly ask) to thrust in this way the betises of their favourite codex B upon us?
Westcott and Hort are virtually responsible for the Revisers' Greek Text, that it is so imperiously demanded by the Revisers and their partizans, that the Theory of the two Cambridge Professors may be critically examined.
The "Quarterly Reviewer" can afford to wait,--if the Revisers can.
At the foot of each page, he shows what changes have been introduced into the Text by the Revisers of 1881.
The Revisers and the Greek Text of the New Testament, &c.
Until it has been ascertained that the result of their labours exhibits a decided improvement upon what before was read, it is clearly a mere waste of time to enquire into the merits of their work as Revisers of a Translation.
Conservative, but conscientious, revisersdecide that whole passages, some of dogmatic and some of ethical importance, are interpolations.
As competent scholars and honest men, our revisers have felt compelled to point out that such things have happened even since the date of the oldest known manuscripts.
In the preparation of the Revised Version of 1885 the American scholars proposed more radical changes than the English revisers would admit.
The American revisers, to their credit, urged the adoption of this reading; but the Oxford revisers retained the error.
After eighteen hundred years the Holy Ghost discovered his mistake and moved the Oxford revisers to substitute "the" for "a.
In the New Version the twelve verses relating it are declared by the Oxford revisers to be an interpolation.
Thus the revisers of the Old Testament carried out their onerous task, the work of several years, seated round this table.
Therefore, theRevisers have swept it away, and the words damn and damnation have now vanished entirely and for ever out of the pages of the English Bible.
The English Revisers have retained the word Hell and put the word Gehenna beside it in the margin.
The revisers have expunged fifteen words, added some, and altered others.
That theRevisers corrected many of these errors is admitted.
The Revisers of the King James version pronounced them spurious.
Revisers could not get a sufficient majority to change it, not that it is quite satisfactory as it stands.
This is insipid and flat to the last degree: textual and psychological considerations combine to support the Revisers text.
This is the text which our Revisers render: "I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Ezra Abbot, and one of the revisers of the New Testament, whose arduous labors in the department of sacred lexicography are too well-known to need further mention.
Again, it is suggestive that therevisers of the New Testament, in Matt, xxiii.
That these criticisms are not unjustified is seen in the fact that the New Testament revisers have discarded the word "damnation" in the above passages, and in Rom.
As to the hand of a reviser or revisers in the book, we see no difficulty in allowing for such.
But it is atrocious to be told of revisers colouring statements and modifying facts in the interests of religious parties, or even in the interest of truth itself.
Whoever the revisers were, they seem to have judged it best to leave these things as they found them, rather than incur the responsibility of altering what had already been written.
Throughout this section it is well worth while to notice the very considerable improvements which the Revisers have made in it.
Two of the changes made by the Revisers in this passage seem to call for notice: they both occur in the same phrase and have a similar tendency.
But something must be supplied to complete the sense; and it is more natural to understand with the Revisers "So do I now exhort thee," than with the A.
Among the foolish charges which have been brought against the Revisers is that of favouring Arian tendencies by blurring those texts which teach the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
In these alterations the Revisers are only following the example set by the A.
The bearing of these facts upon our subject is, that they prove that it was in no merely antiquarian spirit that our latest revisers retained the far-famed rubric of Edward VI.
The translation does not quite represent the fact, and the revisers have therefore replaced the old Hebrew word Asherah.
But strange to say, not only have the Revisers adopted this corrupt reading in the two passages already mentioned, but they have not let so much as a hint fall that any alteration whatsoever has been made by them in the inspired Text.
They agree, and the Revisers of 1881, in rejecting unceremoniously all the three clauses and exhibiting the place curtly, thus.
But first of those who have been regarded by the majority of the Revisers as the disposers of their decision, according to the information supplied by Tischendorf.
But Lachmann, Tregelles, Tischendorf and the Revisersreject them entirely.
With fatal infelicity the Revisers exhibit 'For indeed the hand of the Lord was with him.
Judas Iscariot the son of Simon' the Revisers require us henceforth to read, 'Judas the son of Simon Iscariot.
Margoliouth was one of the revisers of the English version of the Old Testament.
The revisers of 1881 tell us that the language of the old English version could be improved, and that they meant to improve it.
Let us glance over a few pages of the New Testament to see of what nature and of what importance, from a doctrinal point of view, are the changes made by the laterevisers of the "Authorized (Protestant) Version.
But the revisers of 1881 found out that these "faults" were downright sins, and so they put it.
On the other hand, the American revisers showed their national spirit and liberality to a degree which must have horrified the orthodox members of the Anglican Community.
So Hades must be Purgatory, and the revisershave thus moved Dives into Purgatory, and Purgatory into the Gospel.
The revisers add what Freethinkers have long maintained, and have been denounced from pulpits for maintaining, viz.
Nor are the revisers by any means free from doubt and misgiving on their own work.
The text constructed by the English Revisers in preparation for their Revised Translation was published in two forms at Oxford and Cambridge respectively in 1881.
The Greek Testament, with the Readings adopted by the Revisers of the Authorized Version.
The text, or one almost identical with it, had been submitted to the Revisersof the N.
We note many small variations between the text of these critics as communicated to the Revisers some years before, and that finally published in 1881.
Scrivener, gave the Authorized text with the variations of the Revisers mentioned at the foot.
While if we take up the Revised Version we shall find that the Revisers have quite omitted this verse in the text, placing it in the margin, with a note stating that some ancient authorities insert it wholly or in part.
Nor are the late revisersof his grammar any more methodical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revisers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
