The Bibles of England a Plain Account for Plain People of the Principal Version
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They were, in other words, not only improvements on the renderings in the Great Bible, but they suggested and contributed materials for still further improved renderings, which appear now in the authorised version. They were scrolls or drafts of revision, which were finally adjusted, by a national committee, fifty years afterwards.
In some instances, it must be admitted, the changes of diction made by the Geneva revisers on the English Bible were not improvements. This was to be expected. Where...ver many changes are made, they can scarcely be all for the better. It is satisfactory if a large majority are.
174 Bibles of England.
The Geneva translators were neither invariably fortunate in their choice of words, invariably successful in their composition of phrases, nor invariably happy in their renderings. It is a sound maxim in revision, to let well alone ; and so, when the Geneva divines found it said in the Great Bible, Prov. Vi. 6, " Go to the emmet, thou sluggard, and consider her wayes, " it may be asked, in the name of wonder, why they could not have allowed that rendering to stand, but should have sub- stituted for the word italicised an unsavoury term of nauseous and obvious etymology.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They were, in other words, not only improvements on the renderings in the Great Bible, but they suggested and contributed materials for still further improved renderings, which appear now in the authorised version. They were scrolls or drafts of revision, which were finally adjusted, by a national committee, fifty years afterwards.
In some instances, it must be admitted, the changes of diction made by the Geneva revisers on the English Bible were not improvements. This was to be expected. Where...ver many changes are made, they can scarcely be all for the better. It is satisfactory if a large majority are.
174 Bibles of England.
The Geneva translators were neither invariably fortunate in their choice of words, invariably successful in their composition of phrases, nor invariably happy in their renderings. It is a sound maxim in revision, to let well alone ; and so, when the Geneva divines found it said in the Great Bible, Prov. Vi. 6, " Go to the emmet, thou sluggard, and consider her wayes, " it may be asked, in the name of wonder, why they could not have allowed that rendering to stand, but should have sub- stituted for the word italicised an unsavoury term of nauseous and obvious etymology.
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