THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD. EDITED BY THE REV. HENRY BURGESS, LL.D., PH.D., MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. ALEXANDER HEYLIN, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH: W. OLIPHANT AND SON. DUBLIN: S. B. OLDHAM. 1858. THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD. No. XI.-OCTOBER, 1857. BIBLICAL REVISION.-The Gospel of St. John. The GREAT thanks are due to the five clergymen who have put forth the revised translation of the gospel according to St. John, to which we briefly called attention in a former number." question, so freely mooted of late, as to the completeness and sufficiency of our Authorized Version, is thus met by a practical answer. We are enabled, thus far at least, to attach to that question its real weight and value. We may compare together the old and the new; and few perhaps will hesitate as to the conclusion, that the old is better. Now this result, if we arrive at it, is attained to by a very safe and satisfactory course. We have a portion of Scripture most wisely chosen for the purpose of direct comparison. Those who have undertaken its re-translation are eminently qualified for the task. The principle upon which it has been carried out is simple and unexceptionable. I. The gospel by St. John has been chosen with great wisdom. It is long enough to supply a fair and adequate test; and yet it lies within so small a compass that it may be very easily a The Gospel according to St. John, after the Authorized Version. Newly compared with the original Greek, and revised by five Clergymen :-John Barrow, D.D.; George Moberly, D.C.L.; Henry Alford, B.D.; William G. Humphrey, B.D.; Charles J. Ellicott, M.A. London: John W. Parker and Son. Royal 8vo, pp. 80. (April, 1857.) VOL. VI.- B |