ON THE PROVERBS: WITH A NEW TRANSLATION, AND WITH SOME OF THE ORIGINAL EXPOSITIONS RE-EXAMINED IN A CLASSIFIED LIST. BY JOHN MILLER, PRINCETON, N. J. NEW YORK: ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1872, by ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & Co., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. PREFACE. THE author has brought to this work, and carries away from it greatly increased, these four convictions: First, that the Old Version of the Bible ought to be kept as the standard in English speech as long as it is practically possible; Second, that to object to anything that corrects it, however much it may bend it from its sense, is a mistake, and, in a large degree, a wickedness; Third, that it may some day be given up; and Fourth, that, in preparation for that event, men should translate without fear or favor, and that every thought should be turned on what must have been the real mind of the Holy Spirit. 1. That the Old should serve as long as possible, appears from the fact that the same peoples will never unite upon a New. A Bible in every sect is a state of things that may be almost sure to come; but must sorely try the faith of the Church. 2. To prevent this by repression is wicked. To prefer the work of King James to the actual mind of the Spirit is fetich. To gather what God meant and risk all consequences is an evident instinct of faith. And to condemn a man because his work is new, as a thing kept separate from the thought that it is unscholarly or false, is as rank a superstitious fault as the Jews fell into with the text, when big letters or little letters were kept wrong through idolatrous devotion. 3. There may come a time when mistakes will balance ad (RECAP)) 27746 (3) |