Transcribed from the 1856 John Farquhar Shaw edition by David Price. BIBLICAL REVISION: CONSIDERATIONS IN FAVOUR OF A REVISED TRANSLATION OF Holy Scripture. * * * * * BY EDWARD SLATER. * * * * * [The Authorized Version] is far from being immaculate. It is not sufficiently close and uniform in rendering the original . . . is not calculated to convey precise and critical information in difficult and mysterious passages of the Prophecies, &c. DR. WILLIAM HALES. _New Analysis of Chronology_, Vol. II. p. ix. * * * * * LONDON: JOHN FARQUHAR SHAW, 36, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 27, SOUTHAMPTON ROW, RUSSELL SQUARE. * * * * * 1856. _Price One Shilling_. * * * * * MY DOCTRINE SHALL DROP AS THE RAIN, MY SPEECH SHALL DISTIL AS THE DEW, AS THE SMALL RAIN UPON THE TENDER HERB, AND AS THE SHOWERS UPON THE GRASS. DEUT. XXXII. 2. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, SET YOUR HEARTS UNTO ALL THE WORDS WHICH I TESTIFY AMONG YOU THIS DAY, WHICH YE SHALL COMMAND YOUR CHILDREN TO OBSERVE TO DO, ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW. FOR IT IS NOT A VAIN THING FOR YOU; BECAUSE IT IS YOUR LIFE. DEUT. XXXII. 46, 47. CONSIDERATIONS, &c. AMONG the characteristics of an Age replete with new and unlooked-for events, perhaps not the least singular and impressive is the desire, now extensively evinced, for an improved translation of Holy Scripture. A solitary voice, {3} it is true, has been raised to the same effect, from time to time; but it has gradually died away in the noise of worldly bustle, or been summarily stifled by Prejudice or Fear. A more fitting time has arrived for renewing the cry; for we have become more reflective with the progress of events, and a desire for improvement—not limited to mere material good—has sprung up, that is irrepressible, and all but universal. But, encouraging as is the Temper of the Times for prosecuting the task that we have undertaken, we need to make our way cautiously. The subject is confessedly a delicate one, and is, moreover, in not a few quarters, entrenched in prejudices under the seeming sanction of religion itself.