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James i, 22. Rev. ii, 3, "for my name's sake hast laboured" is taken also from the first edition, the strange rendering of the edition of 1534, "and dydest wasshe thyself," the reading of Erasmus in 1516 and 1519.1

Some of Coverdale's renderings in other parts of Galatians are retained in the Authorized Version, such as iii, 6, "counted"; 10, "under curse"; 15, "confirmed "; 24, "unto Christ" 29, "according to promise," Tyndale having "ascribed"; "malediction," "allowed," "unto the time of Christ," "by promise." Many of his translations in other parts of the New Testament are also preserved in our present version, and these are better than Tyndale's of 1534. Matt. ii, 12, " In a dream” iii, 14, "I have need to be"; vi, 10, "thy kingdom"; 12, "debts"; vii, 21, "the will of my Father"; x, 41, "a righteous man's reward"; xiii, 30, "till the harvest"; xvi, 3, “it will be foul weather to-day "; xvii, 6, "overshadowed"; xxi, 28, “but what think ye?" xxiii, 9, "One is your Father"; xxiv, 28, "there will the eagles be gathered together"; xxv, 21, "enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Canon Westcott refers to two other renderings in 1 John ii, 16, "the pride of life," and 17, "the world passeth away." The fact is that, in the Authorized Version, Tyndale's renderings are adopted about three times oftener than those of Coverdale, though in many cases both are refused, even when they agree together. Other clauses not preserved in the current translation are also very good. Galatians iv, 5, "that we might receive the childship," is preferable to Tyndale's circuitous phrase, “that we through election might receive the inheritance which belongeth unto the natural sons"; vi, 1, "overtaken of a fault"; Tyndale, "fallen by chance into a fault"; 2 Thessalonians i, 7, "with the angels of his power," Tyndale having "with his mighty angels." Like Tyndale, he has the terms to which Sir Thomas More vehemently objected, "love" and "congregation which "charity" and church afterwards superseded. He has also, as Tyndale had, "knowledge" for "confess," and both use "similitude" for "parable"; but for Tyndale's

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repent" in Matt. iii, 1, he has "amend your selves." turion" in Tyndale is "captain" in Coverdale; "unleavened bread" is "sweet bread," in both an imitation of Luther's sütsesbrod, the contrast being suggested by sauerteig (leaven). After him they both have "Easter," and occasionally "Easter lamb." But with all the excellencies of his version no one who has looked into the question can accept the statement of Geddes, that the Authorized Version is "of less merit, and is less in accordance with the original, than that of Coverdale."

CHAPTER XX.

THERE are, as might be anticipated from the man and the time, many quaint and antique renderings in Coverdale. Gen. viii, 11, and she bare it (an olive leaf) in her nebbthe last term being still in familiar use among Scottish boys.

Joshua ii, 11, our hert hath failed us, neither is there a good stomacke in eny man.

Judges vi, 19, layed the flesh in a maunde and put the broth in a pot; x, 53, cast a pece of a mylstone upon Abimelech's heade and brake his brain panne; xi, 39, she had never been in daunger of eny man (Romans, iii, 19, and that all the world may be endangered to God);1 xv, 19, then God opened a gome tooth in the cheke bone, so the water went out; xvii, 5, the man Micah had a god's house, and made an overbody cote (ephod) and idols; xx, 32, let us flye, that we may provoke them out of the city into the bye stretes.

Ruth ii, 1, Boaz, which was an honest man.

1 Sam. iv, 17, then answered the tydinge bringer and sayde; x, 1, then toke Samuel a glasse of oyle and poured it upon his head; xx, 30, thou wicked and unthryfte, I know that thou hast chosen the son of Isai to the shame of thyselff and of thy shameful mother; xxi, 13, and stackered towarde the dores of the gate, and his slaveringes ranne downe his beerde; xxv, 18, five sheep ready dighted, and five measures of firmentye.

2 Sam. xiii, 6, make me a syppynge or two; xiv, 14, and God will not take away the lyfe, but unbethynketh himself that even the very outlaw be not clean thrust out from him; xxii, 1 Bishop's Bible,

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1 Kings xii, 11, I will nourtoure you with scorpions; xvii, 12, a curtesy oyle in a cruse; xxii, 34, and shott the king of Israel between the mawe and the lunges.

2 Chron, xxv, 12, and cast them downe headlinges from the toppe of the mount, so that they all to burst in sunder.

Job iii, 5, let it be lapped in with sorowe; v, 7, it is man that is borne vnto mysery, lyke as the byrde for to fle; vi, 16, they that feare the horefroste, the snow shal fal vpon them; xiii, 4, As for you, ye are workmasters of lyes; xiv, 1, Whether his children come to worship or no, he can not tell; xvii, 1, My breth fayleth, my dayes are shortened, I am hard at deathes dore; xix, 17, Myne owne wyfe may not abyde my breth: I am fayne to speake fayre vnto the children of mine owne body; 18, Yee the very deserte fooles despyse me; xxxix, 25, He feareth not the noyse of the trompettes; but as soon as he heareth the shawmes blowe, tush (sayeth he), for he smelleth the batell afarre of.

Psalm xiv, 1, The foolish bodyes saye in their hertes, Tush, there is no God; lxviii, 11, the Lorde shal geve the worde with greate hoostes of evangelistes; lxxiv, 5, men maye se the axes glister aboue, like as those that hewe in the wod. They cutt downe all the sylinge worke of ye sanctuary with bylles and axes. xci, 5, thou shalt not nede to be afrayde of eny bugges by night; cxix, 70, their herte is as fat as brawn.1

Prov. xvi, 18, after a proude stomacke there followeth a fall 28, he that is a blabbe of his tonge maketh devysion; xvii, 14, he that soweth discorde and strife is like on that dyggeth up a water broke; xxiii, 2, measure their appetite.

Isaiah ii, 4, So that they shal breake their swerdes and speares, to make sythes, sycles, and sawes thereof; 6, or in calkers of mens byrthes; v, 9, the Lord of hoostes rowneth me thus; 22, Wo vnto them that are connynge men to suppe

'Luther, dick wie Schmeer; Vulgate, sicut lac. Brawns occurs in Wycliffe, Job xxii, 9; the second version having "schuldris "--shoul

ders. Chaucer has "full big he was of braun." Grease of our version came from the Genevan, and it is nearer in sense to the Hebrew term.

out wyne; 27, no one faynte nor feble amonge them, no not a slogish or nor slepery parsone; vi, 2, From aboue flakred the seraphins; 4, the geastes and dore chekes moued at their crienge; x, 15, or doth the sawe make eny krakinge against him that ruleth it; xxiv, 20, The erth shal geue a greate crack, it shal haue a sore ruyne, and take an horrible fall; xliv, 6, and do wherthorow he maye be lickened vnto me; lvi, 3, neither shal the gelded man saye, I am a drie tre.

Jer. viii, 52, there is no triacle in Galaad. xvii, 1, graven vpon the edge of your aulters with a pen of iron and with an adamant clawe.

Dan. ix, 26, after the lxvii weekes shall Christ be slain, and they shall haue no pleasure in him.

Hosea xi, 3, I learned Ephram to go.

Matt. ii, 2, the newe borne kynge.

Mark iii, 21, he taketh to moch vpon him; vi, 2, marueled at his lernynge; viii, 16, their myndes wauered here and there; xv, 29, Fye vpon the, how goodly breakest thou downe the temple. Luke x, 40, Martha made her self moch to do; xi, 8, because of his vnshamefast begginge.

John i, 38, Where art thou at lodginge? xviii, 39, that I should give one vnto you lowse at easter.

Acts v, 14, layed them vpon beddes and barowes; vi, 1, because their wyddowes were not loked vpon in the daylie handreachinge; xvii, 11, they were the Eldest amonge them at Thessalonica.

1 Cor. ii, 1, I came not with hye words.

2 Cor. i. 18, O faitfull God, that oure worde vnto you hath not bene yee and naye.

Eph, iv, 16, one member hangeth by another thorowout all the iontes.

Philip. i, 10, that maybe pure and soch as hurte no man's conscience.

Colos. ii, 10, Let no man make you shote at a wronge mark, which after his owne chosynge walketh in humbleness and spiritualyte of angels, thinges which he neuer sawe.

1 Tim. vi, 4, but waysteth his brayne aboute questions and stryuynges of wordes.

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