P080 A Short History of the English Bible.

P080 A Short History of the English Bible.

7. The manuscript now lost.

8. The work a revision of all preceding English Bibles.

9. The Hebrew text used by them not known, probably Bomberg’s Rabbinical Bible.

10. The Greek text they followed mainly, is supposed to have been Beza’s.

11. Italic words were used for several purposes.

12. Punctuation, at first, very scanty.

13. Four uses for marginal notes.

14. No historical or chronological notes. These have been added since.

15. Marginal references not so numerous as now.

16. Two distinct editions in 1611.

17. The style peculiar.

18. Various important editions since 1611. Pp. 48-58.

15. The Proposed Revision.

1. Fruitless efforts of 1856.

2. Resolution of Convocation of Canterbury, February, 1870.

3. Committee of sixteen appointed with power to add.

4. The whole number, fifty-two.

5. First meeting of the New Testament Company, June 22, 1870.

6. First meeting of the Old Testament Company, June 30, 1870.

7. Co-operation of American scholars through Dr. Schaff.

8. The American Company formed in 1872, and its first meeting held October 4.

9. Not designed to make a new translation, but a revision of the present.

10. General principles for the guidance of the revisers.

11. Numerous reasons for a revision. Pp. 58-62.