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Excerpt from Improved Renderings of Those Passages in the English Version of the New Testament Which Are Capable of Being More Correctly Translated

That the authorised English Version of the Holy Scriptures con tains several passages capable of. Being more accurately rendered, is a statement which none, who are familiar with the inspired originals, will be disposed to dispute. To acknowledge the need of corrections in a translation of books, so peculiar in their character, so considerable in number, and so various in style, implies nothing derogatory either to the mental attainments or good intentions of our excellent translators. Many of the passages which now require correction were exact and faithful when they were first published, and convey a wrong impression to the modern English reader, just because the lapse of more than two hundred years has considerably altered our language others of them are merely oversights resulting from that mixture of imperfection which attaches to all human performances while a very few may perhaps justly be imputed to those particular views of ecclesiastical polity, entertained by our translators and their royal patron. Those views may have produced an in¿uence on their minds of which they themselves were scarcely conscious.

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