Therefore will I divide him 12. Therefore I will allot him _a portion_ with the great, and the great for his portion, and he he shall divide the spoil with shall divide the mighty as spoil, the strong; because he poured out because he poured out his soul his soul unto death: and he was unto death, and was numbered with numbered with the transgressors; transgressors. So he bore the and he bare the sin of many, and sin of many, and intercedes {18b} made intercession for the for the transgressors. transgressors. NOTE.—The new translation is less soft and mellifluous than the old, but let it not be hastily condemned in the comparison on that account. It is more exact, and that is the principal object now. Probably it may yet fall into hands that shall combine all the beautiful flow of the old version, with no less, and even far greater exactness than we have been able to achieve. Thus far for the Old Testament. We adopt a somewhat different mode of selection in dealing with the New, but adhere to our plan of exhibiting the two versions in juxtaposition. The amended passages that follow are taken, with a few exceptions, from Professor Scholefield’s “Hints for an Improved Translation of the New Testament.” They are, it is presumed, sufficiently important to warrant the selection, but it must be premised that it is not by taking isolated passages for emendation that the WHOLE TRUTH insisted upon in these pages can be enforced. There are numberless points of correction of which our version is susceptible that are not adapted for such isolated exhibition, and which it is the special business of the Greek particles to supply; but the exhibition of such points, involving the structure of sentences and the mutual relation of the clauses of which they are made up, would require a much larger canvass. We indicate this source of correction only to avert the conclusion, that our argument rests solely on the basis supplied in the particular mode of illustration adopted.