THE REVISED BIBLE

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

THE REVISED BIBLE.

BIBLE students will be interested in any information relative to the “revised” edition of the Bible which has been so long promised. We are glad to learn that the word “hell” is to be dropped; and though the words to be substituted do not, perhaps, convey a very intelligible meaning to many minds, yet we hope the change will provoke inquiry, and lead some to abandon old-fashioned errors concerning the duration of future punishment. The Christian at Work gives the following item concerning this new work:—

As we have announced before, the American and English committees hope to be able to publish the revised New Testament some time before the close of the present year, and the Old Testament at a date two or three years later. As is well known, the English Committee send over portions of their translations for correction and criticism by the American Committee, and the American Committee do the same to the English Committee. No translation is allowed which is not accepted by two-thirds of both Committees, voting separately. Meanwhile Dr. Angus, the eminent Baptist minister and Principal of Regent's Park Baptist College, prepares the public to expect certain particular changes. For instance, the word “prevent” is to be turned into “go before,” though the most popular of collects has kept its old meaning all e. “Damned” is to be invariably changed to “condemned.” “Hell” is likely to be rendered either Gehenna or Hades. “Repent” is to be replaced by a stronger word meaning “turn about and do right,” and “religion” in one place is to be changed into “worship.”