Lives And Legends Of The Evangelists Apostles And Other Early Saints Classic Reprint

Author : Alexander Campbell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333601973
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ written by Alexander Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sacred Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ: Commonly Styled the New Testament Dissertations and Notes, for their boldness with the original text. He has not only insinuated, that these fathers of the Calvinistic Israel, did willfully and knowingly interpolate the scriptures, and torture many pas sages to favor their system; but he has unequivocally accused and convicted them of the crime. In vol. Ii. P. 228, on an extract from Beza, in which he gives his reasons for certain translations, the Doctor remarks: Here we have a man who, in effect, acknowledges that he would not have translated some things in the way he has'done, if it were not that he could thereby strike a severer blow against some adverse sect, or ward off a blow which an adversary might aim against him. Of these great objects he never loses sight. I own, says the Doctor, that my ideas on this subject are so much the reverse of Beza's, that I think a translator is bound to abstract from, and, as far as possible, forget all sects and systems, together with all the polemic jargon which they have been the occasion of introducing. His aim ought to be invariably to give the untainted sentiments of the author, and to express himself in such a manner, as men would do, amongst whom such disputes had never been agitated. An apology is offered for Beza by our author, for his willful mistrans lations. After adducing several examples of his glosses and interpolations, he quotes a passage from the Epistle to the Hebrews, where Beza is defend ing the perseverance of the saints. Bishop Pearson had before observed, that this passage was unfaithfully translated by Beza. But, says our author, this is one of the many passages, in which this interpreter has judged, that the sacred penmen, having expressed themselves incautiously, and having given a handle to the patrons of erroneous tenets, stood in need of him more as a corrector than as a translator. In this manner, Beza sup ports the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, having been followed in the first of these errors by the French and English translators, but not in the second; and not by the Italian translator in either, though as much a Calvinist as any of them. This apology is not more severe than just; for, in fact, Beza, and others of the same school, have written and trans lated, as though they considered themselves correctors of the too unguarded style of the Apostles and Evangelists. In doing this, they may have been conscientious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.