The manual of the American Bible society Author:American Bible Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was required to translate separately each chapter in course,- and then, when the company came together, they were to compare what they had done and agree on a co... more »mmon translation. When one company had thus agreed, it sent its work to each of the other companies, to be critically reviewed by all. If any company, upon reviewing the work of the other companies, found anything doubtful or unsatisfactory, they were required to note the places and their reasons for differing, and to send it back to the company from which it came. If that company did not concur in the suggestions made, the matter was to be arranged at a general meeting of the chief persons of all the companies at the end of the work. By this arrangement every part of the Bible ivas most closely scrutinized at least fourteen times. This is the English version of the Scriptures now " in common use," spoken of in the first article of the Constitution of the American Bible Society. 6. Revised English Bible. At different periods during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, efforts, more or less formal, were made to secure 11 revision of the Authorized Version of the English Bible. On the I0th day of February, 1870, the subject was brought before the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, by Dr. Wilberforce, the Bishop of Winchester. Action was then taken formally inaugurating the undertaking which resulted in the publication of the Revised English Bible. About fifty eminent scholars in Great Britain, and thirty in the United States, representing various branches of the Christian Church, were associated in this difficult and important enterprise. The New Testament appeared in 1881, and the entire Bible in 1885. Such views of the American revisers as were not finally approved by the English revisers...« less