Note 15b — LETTER, &c.

You are aware, perhaps, of the gross mistranslation of your Testament, in Eph. v. 32. to support this notion.—μυστηριον is mystery, not sacrament. But your French new Testament is bolder still, and actually foists in the words—le Sacrement de Mariage in 1 Cor. vii. 10.—and again in 2 Cor. vi. 14. and in 1 Tim. iv. 3. This is a very rare book,—a small thick octavo of 774 p. p.: I have examined it, but believe that there are now very few copies to be found. I saw one purchased by the present Lord Bishop of Cashel, at a public auction, for the enormous sum—if my memory does not fail me—of £40. Bishop Kidder, I think first called public attention to it—next Mr. Grier—and Archdeacon Cotton, in 1827, republished Bishop Kidder’s tract, with notes. I add here, that the book was published—“avec approbation et permission,” abundantly.