Some of his alterations were in the direction of greater intelligibility. He used _button_ instead of _tache_, _capital_ for _chapiter_, and made Hebrew proper names in the New Testament conform to the usage of the Old. "This will prevent illiterate persons, who compose a large part of the readers of the Scriptures, from mistaking the characters. Every obstacle to a right understanding of the Scriptures, however small, should be removed, when it can be done in consistency with truth." Like the American Committee he preferred _Holy Spirit to Holy Ghost_, and was willing to drop the title _Saint_ from the names of the evangelists, and having all the authority necessary he made these changes. In other instances there appears an interesting agreement between this independent American reviser of 1833 and the American Committee of the present year; number VII. of the classes of passages recorded at the close of the Revised version, as preferred by the American Committee, reads: "Substitute modern forms of speech for the following archaisms, namely, _who_ or _that_ for _which_ when used of persons; _are_ for _be_ in the present indicative; _know_, _knew_, for _wot_, _wist_; _drag_ or _drag away_ for _hale_," and Webster's corrections upon the same plan are uniform. It is unquestionably due to Webster that the American Committee had this preference, not to the Webster who revised the Bible, for it is scarcely likely that his revision was used for reference, but to the Webster who early proposed such changes in the use of language and never ceased to urge them upon every occasion. So, too, both agree in dropping _thy way_ from the phrase _go thy way_; in saying _urgent_ for _instant_. The variations, however, of the American Committee from the English have reference largely to readings.