Some Lessons of the Revised Version of the New Testament.
By Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The Bishop of Durham does good service by putting together in this volume a number of revised renderings, with occasional comments on their importance. It is, in fact, a powerful statement of the ease for the revisers. We are not convinced that their method was practically the best that could be followed. But this we may say with confidence, that any one who will study this volume will see what really important, and it might be said, essential, changes have been made. The effect of some of them it would be difficult to overrate. "One flock and one shepherd," for instance, brings out "the spring of unity in personal relationship with Christ," which is obscured in the "one fold and one shepherd." Of matters of detail there are many examples. "Make the people sit down so the men sat down." There the contrast, lost in the Authorised Version, between ZwepZ irous and livopfs is brought out. "He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his feet." "A creek with a shore" becomes "a bay with a beach,"— that is, something quite vague is changed into a definite picture.
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