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Footnotes:
{6} The following Resolution was passed unanimously by the Upper House
of the Convocation of Canterbury on Feb. 10, 1899, after the presentation
of the Report of the Committee (well worthy of being read) by the Bishop
of Rochester. The Report is numbered 329, and, with other Reports of
Convocation, is sold by the National Society:--
"That in the opinion of this House the use of the Revised Version at
the lectern in the public service of the Church, where this is
desired by clergy and people, is not open to any well-founded
objection, and will tend to promote a more intelligent knowledge of
Holy Scripture."
{10a} Among others may be named the _Edinburgh Review_ for 1855 on
Paragraph Bibles, in which it was said that it was now high time for
another revision (p. 429); the _Christian Remembrancer_ for 1856 on the
Revision of the Authorised Version (an interesting article); the
_Quarterly Review_ for 1863, intimating that as yet we were not ripe for
any authorised text or translation; the _Edinburgh Review_ for 1865; and
the _Contemporary Review_ for 1868, a careful and elaborate article,
contending that the work must be done by a Commission.
{10b} In February, 1856, when Canon Selwyn gave notice of proposing a
petition on the subject to the Upper House. The proposal in a somewhat
different form a year afterwards was disposed of by a characteristic
amendment of Archdeacon Denison.
{10c} On July 22, 1856, Mr. Heywood, one of the members, I think, for
North Lancashire, in rather an interesting speech, moved for an Address
to the Crown to issue a Royal Commission on the subject. The motion was
rejected, Sir George Grey expressing his conviction that the feeling of
the country was not in accordance with the motion.
{12} Preface to the Revision of the Authorised Version of the Gospel
according to St. John by Five Clergymen, p. xii. As I remark afterwards,
this preface proved to be very attractive, and by its moderation greatly
helped the cause. The book has long since gone out of print, but if any
reader of this note should come across it, this preface will be found
well worth reading, as it will show what was in the minds of many beside
the Five Clergymen five and forty years ago.
{13} See Schaff, _Companion to Greek Testament and English version_, p.
367, note (New York, 1883).
{21} The _Expositor_ for October, 1892, pp. 241-255. The article was
answered by me in the same periodical two months later.
{22} The account of the discussion in the Convocation of York (Feb. 23,
1870) will be found in _The Guardian_ of March 2, 1870. In the comments
of this paper on the action or rather inaction of the Northern
Convocation a very unfavourable opinion was expressed, in reference to
the manner in which the Southern Convocation had been treated. But these
things have long since been forgotten.
{35} It may be interesting to give this list, as it slightly affects
matter that will be alluded to afterwards in reference to the Greek text.
The attendances were as follows: The Chairman, 405; Dr. Scrivener, 399;
Prebendary Humphry, 385; Principal Newth, 373; Prof. Hort, 362; Dean
Bickersteth (Prolocutor), 352; Dean Scott, 337; Prof. Westcott, 304; Dean
Vaughan, 302; Dean Blakesley, 297; Bishop Lightfoot, 290; Archdeacon Lee,
283; Dr. Moulton, 275; Archdeacon Palmer, 255; Dean Stanley, 253; Dr.
Vance Smith, 245; Principal Brown, 209; Principal Angus, 199; Prof.
Milligan, 182; Prof. Kennedy, 165; Dr. Eadie, 135; Bishop Moberly, 121;
Bishop Wordsworth (St. Andrews), 109; Dr. Roberts, 94; Archbishop Trench,
63; Dean Merivale (resigned early), 19; Dean Alford (died soon after
commencement), 16; Bishop Wilberforce, 1.
{36} This letter will be found in a very valuable _Historical Account of
the Work of the American Committee of Revision_ (New York, 1885), p. 30.
This _Historical Account_ was prepared by a special Committee appointed
for the purpose in May, 1884, and was based on documents and papers
arranged with great care by Dr. Philip Schaff, the President of the
American Committee, and printed privately. These two volumes, the
_Historical Account_ and the _Documentary History_, contain the fullest
details of the whole transactions between the American Committee and the
English Companies and also the University Presses.
{41} Talbot W. Chambers, _Companion to the Revised Old Testament_ (Funk
and Wagnalls, New York and London, 1885), Preface, p. ix.
{42a} A full account of the negotiation and copies of the letters which
passed between the American Revisers and our own Revisers will be found
in Part 2, p. 81 sqq. of the _Documentary History_, above referred to in
the note at p. 36.
{42b} A full account of this agreement and copies of the correspondence
with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge will be found in Part 3, p.
91 sqq. of the _Documentary History_.
{44} Since the above was written, information reaches me that an
_American Standard Revision of the Bible_ either just has been, or
shortly will be, published, which though not simply an incorporation of
the recorded American preferences, as long specified in our copies of the
Revision, is a publication resting on authority, and likely to put a stop
to what is unauthorised. As the reader may like to know a little about
this _American Standard Revision of the Bible_, I will, at the risk of a
long note, mention what I have ascertained up to the present time. The
survivors of the Old Testament Company (Dr. Osgood and others) with the
three surviving members of the New Testament Company (Dr. Dwight, Dr.
Riddle, and Dr. Thayer--very powerful helpers) have co-operated in
bringing out a new edition of the Revision as it has been hitherto
current in America. It will contain about _twice as many_ deviations
from the English Revised Version as appear in the original Appendices;
but, in regard of them, the survivors give this important assurance, that
"the survivors have not felt at liberty to make new changes of moment
which were not favourably passed upon (_sic_) by their associates, at one
stage or another of the original preparation of the work." They specify
that the original Appendix was prepared in haste and did not, in a
satisfactory manner, express the real views of the Committee. They claim
to have drawn up a body of improved marginal references, to have wholly
removed archaisms, to have supplied running headings, to have modified
what they consider unwieldy paragraphs, to have lightened what they
regard as clumsy punctuation, and by typographical arrangements, such as
by leaving a line blank, to have indicated the main transitions of
thought in the Epistles and Apocalypse. These and other characteristics
will be found specified in the American _Sunday School Times_ for August
11, 1901, in an article apparently derived from those interested. Till
we see the book we must suspend our judgement.
{50} See an article by Rev. J. F. Thrupp in Smith's _Dictionary of the
Bible_, vol. ii. art. Old Testament.
{53} Since the above was written a critical edition of the four Peshitto
Gospels has been published by the Oxford University Press, based on the
labours of the late Philip Edward Pusey, and Rev. G. H. Gwilliam, of
Hertford College.
{55} The title of the pamphlet, which contains twelve letters from
distinguished German Professors, with translations, is _The Revision of
the Old Testament_ (New York, Scribner's Sons, 1886).
{59} The title of Dr. Salmon's interesting volume is _Some Thoughts on
the Textual Criticism of the New Testament_ (Murray, London, 1897).
{60a} Salmon, p. 157.
{60b} Ibid., p. 12.
{96} See below, pp. 98, 120.
{97} See the Preface to Dr. Rutherford's _Translation of the Epistle to
the Romans_, p. xi sq. (Lond. 1900).
{98a} Hodder & Stoughton (Lond. 1897).
{98b} Page 18.
{106} See page 32.
{109} _Bible Studies_, by Dr. G. Adolf Deissmann, Authorised Translation
(Clark, Edinburgh, 1901).
{110a} Page 175.
{110b} London, Macmillan, 1898.
{111} _Theologische Literaturzeitung_, xix (vol. for 1894), p. 338.
{112} _Bible Studies_, p. 84 Transl. See, however, the translator's
note, p. 173, where the use of the term is explained.
{114} _Grammar of New Testament Greek_, section 38. 5, p. 118 (Transl.).
{122} See _Chronicle of Convocation_ for February 10, 1899, p. 71 sqq.
{123} At the May Meeting of the present year.