by C. J. ELLICOTT, D.D., bishop of gloucester , and hon. fellow of st. john’s college , cambridge . published under the direction of the tract committee . LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, northumberland avenue , w.c. ; 43 queen victoria street , e.c. Brighton : 129 North Street . New York : E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO. 1901....

The following Addresses form the Charge to the Archdeaconry of Cirencester at the Visitation held at the close of October in the present year.  The object of the Charge, as the opening words and the tenor of the whole will abundantly indicate, is seriously to suggest the question, whether the time has not now arrived for the more general use of the Revised Version at the lectern in the public service of the Church. C. J. Gloucester . October , 1901....

As there now seem to be sufficient grounds for thinking that ere long the Revised Version of Holy Scripture will obtain a wider circulation and more general use than has hitherto been accorded to it, it seems desirable that the whole subject of the Revised Version, and its use in the public services of the Church, should at last be brought formally before the clergy and laity, not only of this province, but of the whole English Church. Twenty years have passed away since the appearance of the Re

We are now arrived at the time when what was simple tentative and preparatory passed into definite and authoritative realization. The initial step was taken on February 10, 1870, in the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury.  The Bishop of Oxford, seconded by the Bishop of Gloucester, proposed the subjoined resolution, which it may be desirable to give in the exact words in which it was presented to the House, as indicating the caution with which it was framed, and also the indirectly exp

We now pass from what may be called the outward history of the Revision to the inward nature and character of the work of the Revisers, and may naturally divide that work into two portions—their labours as regards the original text, and their labours in regard of rendering and translation. I.  First, then, as regards the original text of the Old Testament. Here the work of the Old Testament Company was very slight as compared with that of the New Testament Company.  The latter Company had, almos

From the text we now turn to the renderings, and to the general principles that were followed, both in the Old and in the New Testament.  The revision of the English text was in each case subject to the same general rule, viz. “To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness”; but, owing to the great difference between the two languages, the Hebrew and the Greek, the application of the rule was necessarily different, and the resu

We have now traced the external, and to some extent the internal history of Revision from the time, some fifty years ago, when it began to occupy the thoughts of scholars and divines, down to the present day. We have seen the steady advance in Church opinion as to its necessity; its earliest manifestations, and the silent progress from what was tentative and provisional to authoritative recognition, and to carefully formulated procedures under the high and venerable sanction of the two Houses of

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