TESTIMONY OF THE WELCH BIBLE.
By E. M. Davis
JOHN xx, 19. Yna, a hi yn hwyr, ydydd cyntaf hunnw o'r wythnos. Then it being late that first day of the week. 1 Cor. xvi, 2. Y dydd cyntaf o'r wythnos, pob un o honech shodded heibio yn ei ymyl, gan drysori, fel y llwgddodd Duw ef. The first day of the week, every one of you put close by him (or lay close by him) treasuring as God hath prospered him. How little the above looks like taking up a public collection at a meeting or gathering on that day. But on the contrary, the injunction of the apostle involves the necessity as a matter of course, for each one to be at home, there looking over his resources, or income, and in proportion to the increase of his gain the past week, let him treasure, or lay up, put by him, for the benefit of poor saints and the advancement of the blessed cause. Surely no Welchman would ever think from the reading of his Welch Bible that the above text had any reference whatever to a public collection at any meeting or gathering at all, unless it would be from the law of necessity in order to make out a case. Luke xxiii, 46. And having said thus he expired; not gave up the ghost, as it is rendered in our English version. But as the same event is recorded by the other evangelists, however, it is rendered, "he departed from the spirit;" which might be considered a correct rendering, from the fact that every soul, person or being is dependent on the spirit (breath) for life. Thus when a person is separated from the spirit, which goes at death to God who gave it, that person then and there expires, life becomes extinct, according to the above rendering of the Welch Bible in Luke xxiii, 46. See James ii, 26 (margin). The words, Holy Ghost, are not found in the Welch Bible, but "clean or sanctified Spirit;" clean signifying holiness, purity, &c. The words, forever and ever, are "oes oesoedd," age of ages. Rev. xiv, 11. But the same word in Dan. xii, 3, is in Welch, "byth yn dragywydd," like the stars always eternally. Again, the word charity is always rendered love. Many more might be given, but this must suffice at present. Ionia, Mich. E. M. DAVIS.