Dr. Scrivener 399
Mr. Humphry 385
Dr. Newth 373
Dr. Hort 362
Dean of Lichfield 352
Dean of Rochester 337
Canon Westcott 304
Dean of Llandaff 302
Dean of Lincoln 297
Bishop of Durham 290
Archdeacon Lee 283
Dr. Moulton 271
Archdeacon Palmer 255
Dean of Westminster 253
Dr. Vance Smith 245
Dr. Brown 209
Dr. Angus 199
Dr. Milligan 182
Canon Kennedy 165
Dr. Eadie 135
Bishop of Salisbury 121
Bishop of St. Andrews 109
Dr. Roberts 94
Archbishop of Dublin 63
Dean Merivale 19
Dean Alford 16
Bishop Wilberforce 1
[130] As the original would be very obscure to many of my readers, I have
somewhat reluctantly decided to give the modern spelling and the modern
equivalent for obsolete words.
[131] Psalm lxxxvii. 6 is thus rendered in the Wycliffite versions, after
the Vulgate and LXX. The LXX. here differs from the Hebrew.
[132] The word Judah, from which “Jew” is derived, is from a Hebrew verb,
meaning “to praise.” (See Gen. xxix. 35; xlix. 8.)
[133] By “sentence” Purvey commonly means “sense,” or “meaning.”
[134] That is, if he examine many copies, and especially those of recent
date.
[135] AUGUSTINE, _Christian Doctrine_, book ii., c. xi.
[136] Bohemians.
[137] AUGUSTINE, _Christian Doctrine_, b. ii. c. xii.
[138] Wisdom, iv. 3.
[139] This Prologue contains but little in the way of historical
information. It has this especial interest, that it is the preface of the
first printed portion of the English Bible.
[140] Imitate.
[141] Changed in later editions, first into “To the diligent and Christian
Reader. Grace, mercie, and peace, through Christ Jesus,” and then “To the
Christian Reader” simply.
[142] Whittingham had previously done the same in his New Testament of
1557. In his address “To the Reader” he says: “And because the Hebrewe and
Greke phrases, which are strange to rendre in other tongues, and also
short, shulde not be to hard, I haue sometyme interpreted them without any
whit diminishing the grace of the sense, as our lāgage doth vse them, and
sometyme have put to that worde which lacking made the sentence obscure,
but haue set it in such letters as may easily be discerned from the cōmun
text.”
In some later editions of the Genevan Bible, printed in black letter, this
clause is altered into “wee have put in the text between these two markes
[ ] such worde or verbe as doth more properlie explane or manifest the
text in our tongue.”
[143] To the end that.
[144] ἔξο βέλους
[145] σεισάχθειαν
[146] _Circa annum 900. B. Rhenan. rerum German lib. 2._
[147] STRYPE, _Life of Parker_, b. iv. c. 20; JOHNSON, _Historical
Account_, p. 87; BURNET, _History of the Reformation_, part ii. book iii.
p. 406, ed. 1681.
[148] The Psalms were in the first instance assigned to Guest, Bishop of
Rochester. It is probable that the Archbishop was dissatisfied with
Guest’s work, and on good grounds, for he despatched it very quickly, and
forwarded it to the Archbishop with a letter, in which he thus sets forth
his estimate of his duty as a translator: “I have not altered the
Translation but where it giveth occasion of an error. As in the first
Psalm, at the beginning I turn the preterperfect tense into the present
tense; because the tense is too hard in the preterperfect tense. Where in
the New Testament one piece of a Psalm is reported, I translate it in the
Psalm according to the translation thereof in the New Testament, for the
avoiding of the offence that may rise to the people upon diverse
translations.” (STRYPE, _Life of Parker_, b. iii. c. 6; _Parker
Correspondence_, PARKER, sec. ed. p. 250.)
[149] _Parker Correspondence_, PARKER, sec. ed. p. 335.
[150] _Hist. of Ref._, part ii. book iii. p. 406, ed. 1681.
[151] _Collection of Records_, part ii. book iii. number 10.
[152] Probably a misprint for Harmer.
[153] CARDWELL, _Documentary Annals_, vol. ii. p. 110.
[154] Barlow was present at the Hampton Court Conference in January, 1601,
and all accounts describe him as then Dean of Chester; and his narrative
of the Conference, published in 1604, is described as “contracted by
William Barlow, Doctor of Divinity, and Dean of Chester.” Sir Peter
Leycester, _Hist. Antiq. of Cheshire_, p. 169, states that Barlow was
appointed Dean in 1603.
[155] Bishop of Chichester, November 3rd, 1605; Bishop of Ely, 1609;
Bishop of Winchester, 1619.
[156] Bishop of Lichfield, April, 1614; Bishop of Norwich, 1618.
[157] Subsequently Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge.
[158] Lively died May, 1605, and hence could not have taken any active
part in the Revision.
[159] Afterwards D.D., and successively Master of Peterhouse and of
Trinity College.
[160] Succeeded Dr. Duport in the Mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge.
[161] Succeeded Mr. Lively as Regius Professor of Hebrew.
[162] Afterwards Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
[163] Afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.
[164] Master of Sidney College, January, 1609; Archdeacon of Taunton,
1615; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge, 1620; Lady Margaret Professor of
Divinity, 1621.
[165] Afterwards D.D., Prebendary of Chichester, and Rector of Bishop’s
Waltham, Hants.
[166] Bishop of Gloucester, March 19th, 1605; Bishop of London, May 18th,
1607.
[167] Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1609; Bishop of London, 1610.
[168] Died November, 1604, and hence could have taken no part in the work
of the Company. His name is not mentioned by Wood in the list given in
_Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._, i. p. 311, ed. 1674.
[169] Knighted at Windsor, September 21st, 1604.
[170] WOOD, _Athenæ Oxoniensis_, i. 355.
[171] _Ibid_, i. 570.
[172] Subsequently, on the death of Rainolds, President of Corpus Christi
College. Dr. WESTCOTT, _History of English Bible_, sec. ed. p. 117, and
Dr. MOULTON, _History of English Bible_, p. 196, both have Dr. _T._
Spencer, but his name, as inscribed on the monument in the Chapel of
Corpus Christi College, is IOHANNES SPENSER, and is so given by Wood.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=.
Superscripted characters are indicated by {superscript}.
End of Project Gutenberg's Lectures on Bible Revision, by Samuel Newth