For where a testament _is_, there For where a covenant _is_, there must also of necessity be the must of necessity be brought in death of the testator. the death of the mediating _sacrifice_. For a testament _is_ of force after men are dead: otherwise it For a covenant is valid over dead is of no strength at all while _sacrifices_: since it is never the testator liveth. of any force while the mediating _sacrifice_ continues alive. Heb. xii. 18. To the mount that might be To the mount that could be touched. touched. Heb. xiii. 4. Marriage _is_ honourable in all, Let marriage be honourable in and the bed undefiled. all, and the bed _be_ undefiled. 1 Pet. iii. 20. Were saved by water. Were saved through the water (brought safely through). 1 Pet. iv. 8. Shall cover the multitude of Will cover a multitude of sins. sins. 2 Pet. i. 16. For we have not followed For we did not follow cunningly cunningly devised fables, when we devised fables when we made known made known unto you . . . unto you . . . 2 Pet. ii. 1, 3. And bring upon themselves swift . . . and their destruction destruction . . . and their slumbereth not (_destruction_, damnation slumbereth not. precisely the same word as before). 2 Pet. ii. 5. Noah the eighth _person_. Noah, with seven others. 2 Pet. ii. 14. Cursed children. Children of the curse. Rev. iv. 6. Four beasts. Four living creatures. Rev. x. 6. That there should be time no That there should be no more longer. delay. Thus far, by way of specimen of the improvement of which the authorized version is susceptible on the score of fidelity to the original. The instances might have been multiplied indefinitely, but we designed only a specimen. We would repeat that there is a large amount of improvement practicable in elucidating and enforcing the sense, when it is not positively misrepresented, that is less fitted for such display, and which alone it would require the transcription of a large portion of the Bible to render apparent. “Claudite jam rivos pueri; sat prata biberunt.”