Words in the Common Version Mistranslated.
THE number of words and phrases in the common version that do not express the meaning of the original, have never been accurately computed. Dr. Conquest lately published a Bible with twenty thousand emendations. Some of these alleged amendments undoubtedly are changes which do not introduce much improvement, and others may be regarded as doubtful, but the great body of them are those which commentators and other scholars have proved to be needed to express the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek. Any one who has examined the revision of Job by Dr. Conant, and carefully compared it with the common version, must be convinced that the errors of the common version are far more numerous than is indicated by the work of Dr. Conquest. A few examples will show their character: Matthew vi, 25. "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink." This inculcates an improvidence about temporal matters, which would bring confusion and distress into every household. The meaning of the original is, Matthew v, 25. "Offend." This word frequently occurs in the New Testament. The original word never means to cause offense, but to cause to fall, entrap, to allure to sin, etc. Matthew xxiii, 24. A typographical error, substituting "AT" for out, gives the idea of an attempt to swallow, instead of that which the original furnishes, "straining out."