Another peculiarity of Mr. Sawyer's translation, which we suppose he claims as an improvement, does not meet our approval. In all cases where there is no word in our language which expresses the signification of the Greek, as in the names of weights and measures, Mr. Sawyer substitutes for the language of the common version the foreign word of the original,--sometimes merely giving the orthography of the Greek in English letters, sometimes affixing a termination,--and frequently he adds, in brackets, an explanation of his rendering. As examples of this, we quote the following:-- "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a _modius_ [1.916 gallon measure]." "I tell you that you shall not go out thence till you have paid even the last _lepton_ [2 mills]." "It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three _sata_ [33 quarts] of flour." "And there were six stone water-jars there, placed for the purification of the Jews, containing two or three _metretes_ [16.75 or 25.125 gallons] each." "And he desired to fill his stomach with the _carob pods_ which the swine eat." "And one poor widow came and cast in two _lepta_, which is a _quadrans_ [4 mills]." It requires no knowledge of the original to pass judgment on such changes as are here made from the common version. The practice which Mr. Sawyer here introduces and sanctions is a vicious one in any translation, and is especially so in the case of the Holy Scriptures, which are to be read by the unlearned and ignorant as well as by the scholar and the critic. Mr. Sawyer's translation of such words as we have noted above conveys no idea to the mind of the common reader, and requires a glossary to make it intelligible. There is in his choice of words a pedantry and affectation of learning that are in bad taste. But in this, as in his other strictly literal renderings, he is inconsistent, and does not adhere to his own rule. He translates Matt. vi. 30,--"And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into the _oven_," etc. If he were consistent in his practice, he would have rendered the word "oven" _klibanon_, and then, in parenthesis, explained that it signifies "a large round pot, of earthen or other material, two or three feet high, narrowing towards the top, on the sides of which the dough was spread to be baked in thin cakes." Probably Mr. Sawyer was deterred from following his rule in this case by the formidableness of the necessary parenthesis; but there is as much reason why he should have written _klibanon_ instead of "oven," as there is for substituting _lepton_ for "farthing," or _modius_ for "bushel," or _carob pods_ for "husks,"--and in fact more reason, because the word "oven," which he indorses and uses, conveys a far more imperfect idea of the original, [Greek: _klibanon_], than those words of the common version which he has rejected do of their originals. All such changes as those instanced above, in our judgment, mar the simplicity