Dean Stanley expressed on Sunday last what we believe will
prove to be the mature judgment of scholars on the Revised Version of the New Testament, when ho declared that'' never before had the English nation had the same opportunity V -arriving at a faithful rendering." Mr. Walrond,—one of the best and most scholarly of judges,—,passes very much the same verdict on it, in the now number of Macmillan's Magazine, though it is obvious that he regards " charity " as having at least acquired a meaning higher even than "love," iu the famous Chapter xiii. of the First Epistle to the Corinthians ; and that he would have found no fault with the Revisers, had they been less anxious for a consistent translation of the same Greek word by the same English word throughout their _Version, in passages where consistency does not appear to be needful, in order to give a better conception of • the true meaning. Still, we have no doubt that the burst of what We may call rather serious irritation than displeasure, which
followed the first clear apprehension of the changes made, is subsiding, and likely to subside still further into scholarly respect and deference.
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