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Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
To smile beneath impending danger ; or to regard it with uiiniffled coun'teuance , denotes a soul impregnable to the petty assaults of temporary casualties ; but to shudder at every stroke of our probation , or peevishly cry out when the current of life ' s stream runs not so smooth ; bespeaks a mind incapable of sustaining the noble purposes for which man was created in the image of his Maker .
The Volume Of The Sacred Law.
THE VOLUME OF THE SACRED LAW .
( TO THE EDITOR ) . Sin AND BROTHER , —As no body of individuals are more interested in the integrity of the sacred writings , and the fidelity of their rendering from the original into their own language , than Freemasons , particularly the Freemasons of this country , I offer no apology for calling your attentionand that of your readers who be learned in these matters
, may , to what I consider a very important point on this subject , which lias recently forced itself upon my attention . A few months since a very beautiful edition of the Bible was published by Longmans , described in the title as " containing the authorised version , with nearly twenty thousand emendations , " said to be derived from every edition that has appeared of the sacred writings , and every writer who has written the subjectcarefullcompared together
upon , y ¦ with the originals , and several manuscripts never before examined , which have been entrusted to the editor , who says in his preface— " He has , therefore , merely brought together the well-sustained emendations of some of the holiest and most learned men who have lived during the last two centuries . In this delightful work the editor has been engaged more than thirty years . * * * . It is now offered as a contribution
towards a more perfect revision of the authorised version . ' In perusing this beautiful book , the following extraordinary variation from the authorised version very early caught my attention : Job v . ver . 6 * and 7 , in the latter stand thus"Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust , neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble , as the sparks fly upward . "
Which are thus amended in the Bible referred to : — " For affliction cometh not forth of the dust , Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; For man is not bom to trouble , As the sparks fly upward . " As I could find nothing to account for this decided difference in any English Bible to which I could obtain accessI conceived it must be
, an error of the press , though I hardly considered that possible from the extreme care which had evidentl y been bestowed upon the work altogether . I therefore sought and obtained an interview with the learned and amiable editor , who entered into the question with the utmost kindness and attention . After ascertaining that I wits not acquainted with the Hebrew language , he took great pains to explain the particular rule
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
To smile beneath impending danger ; or to regard it with uiiniffled coun'teuance , denotes a soul impregnable to the petty assaults of temporary casualties ; but to shudder at every stroke of our probation , or peevishly cry out when the current of life ' s stream runs not so smooth ; bespeaks a mind incapable of sustaining the noble purposes for which man was created in the image of his Maker .
The Volume Of The Sacred Law.
THE VOLUME OF THE SACRED LAW .
( TO THE EDITOR ) . Sin AND BROTHER , —As no body of individuals are more interested in the integrity of the sacred writings , and the fidelity of their rendering from the original into their own language , than Freemasons , particularly the Freemasons of this country , I offer no apology for calling your attentionand that of your readers who be learned in these matters
, may , to what I consider a very important point on this subject , which lias recently forced itself upon my attention . A few months since a very beautiful edition of the Bible was published by Longmans , described in the title as " containing the authorised version , with nearly twenty thousand emendations , " said to be derived from every edition that has appeared of the sacred writings , and every writer who has written the subjectcarefullcompared together
upon , y ¦ with the originals , and several manuscripts never before examined , which have been entrusted to the editor , who says in his preface— " He has , therefore , merely brought together the well-sustained emendations of some of the holiest and most learned men who have lived during the last two centuries . In this delightful work the editor has been engaged more than thirty years . * * * . It is now offered as a contribution
towards a more perfect revision of the authorised version . ' In perusing this beautiful book , the following extraordinary variation from the authorised version very early caught my attention : Job v . ver . 6 * and 7 , in the latter stand thus"Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust , neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble , as the sparks fly upward . "
Which are thus amended in the Bible referred to : — " For affliction cometh not forth of the dust , Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; For man is not bom to trouble , As the sparks fly upward . " As I could find nothing to account for this decided difference in any English Bible to which I could obtain accessI conceived it must be
, an error of the press , though I hardly considered that possible from the extreme care which had evidentl y been bestowed upon the work altogether . I therefore sought and obtained an interview with the learned and amiable editor , who entered into the question with the utmost kindness and attention . After ascertaining that I wits not acquainted with the Hebrew language , he took great pains to explain the particular rule