Excerpt from The Scriptures Defended: Being a Reply to Bishop Colenso's Book on the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua This, I may observe, is no whim of the learned of the present age, but has been already advocated by several highly esteemed writers of the last century. Thus, Bishop Lowth, in the Prelim' inery Dissertation to his commentary on Isaiah, in speaking of Archbishop Seeker's marginal notes on the Bible, says, 'these valuable remains of that great and good man will be of infinite service, whenever that necessary work, a new translation, or a revision of the present translation of the use of our church, shall be undertaken.' In remarks, And as to the turn and modification the translator, in this particular province of translation, is, I think, as much confined to the authors manner as to his words: so that too great liberties taken 1n varying either the expression or the compos1tion, in order to give a new air to the whole, will be apt to have a very bad effect. For these reasons, whenever it shall be thought proper to set forth the Holy Scriptures for the public use of our church, to better advantage, than as they appear in the present English translation, the expediency of which grows every day more and more' evident, a revision or correction of that translation may perhaps be more advisable, than to attempt an entirely new one. For as to the style and language, it admits but of little improvement; but. In respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and nuniberless.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.