Answer to Correspondents.
THE American Bible Union give us the eighth verse of the fifth chapter of second Corinthians in these words: “We are confident and are well pleased rather to leave our home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.” Does the original warrant this change of language? Is the new translation better? J. C. N. ANSWER.—The change is allowable, and perhaps barely that; but we cannot see that it makes any difference in the sense of the passage. In regard to the language, Bloomfield favors the construction given by the Bible Union, and so also the translation of Wakefield, and a French version. But neither Henry, Clarke, nor Olshausen recommend any change, while the Diaglott, Syriac, Douay, French of Martin, and the German, and Macknight, Whiting, Sawyer, and Tyndale, give the same as the common version. Greenfield and Robinson also favor the Authorized Version. J. H. W.