But there is a more serious example of manipulation on the title-page of the Bible. Instead of admitting that the translation has been made from Hebrew and Greek copies, not originals, for there are no originals (and, therefore, there is no way of telling how true the copies are, since they can not be compared with the originals), the words _Translated out of the original Greek_ is inserted on the title-page of the New Testament. This, I am compelled to say, is an indefensible misstatement. The truth is that the originals, if they ever existed, are lost. The bible as we have it is not quite two hundred and fifty years old, and the most ancient manuscript in existence of the Old Testament is not a thousand years old. This is the _Codex Petropolitanus_, which is in the library of St. Petersburg. But where are the originals? Why were they lost? Why were they "inspired" if they were not to be preserved? But how can men who do not hesitate to state in print that they possess the "original Greek" of the New Testament when they do not and never have possessed it, pose as the moral teachers of the world? If the translators of the bible wished to confine themselves to the truth, instead of saying "Translated out of the original Greek, which is not so, they would have said this on the title-page of their work:= ````A Collection of Writings ```Of Unknown Date and Authorship, ````Rendered Into English ``From Supposed Copies of Supposed Originals ````Unfortunately Lost.= Rev. T. K. Cheyne, who is one of the contributors to the most scholarly work recently produced by churchmen, * gives a number of instances of deliberate manipulation of bible texts by the translators. "The Old Testament," he writes, "is not altogether in its original form; it has undergone not merely corruption, but editorial manipulation. This is plainer in some books than in others; but nowhere, perhaps, is it more manifest than in the Psalter." Two of his examples of mistranslation are from the twenty-ninth psalm: * The Encyclopedia Biblica. Authorized Version. Literal Translation. 1. Give thanks unto the Ascribe unto Yahwe, O ye Lord, O ye mighty, give unto sons of Jerahmeel, the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe unto Yahwe glory 2. Give unto the Lord the and strength. glory due unto his name; Ascribe glory, O ye Ish- worship the Lord in the maelites, unto Yahwe, beauty of holiness. Worship Yahwe, Rehoboth and Cush. Compare also the first verse of the one hundred and thirty-ninth psalm with its literal translation as given by Doctor Cheyne : Authorized Version. Literal Translation. 1. O Lord thou hast O Yahwe ! thou hast rooted searched me, and known me. up Zarephath,