BIBLICAL REVISION:
Reading edition
CONSIDERATIONS
IN FAVOUR OF A
REVISED TRANSLATION
OF
Holy Scripture.
By EDWARD SLATER.
[The Authorized Version] is far from being immaculate. It is not sufficiently close and uniform in rendering the original . . . is not calculated to convey precise and critical information in difficult and mysterious passages of the Prophecies, &c.
Dr. William Hales. New Analysis of Chronology, Vol. II. p. ix.
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MY DOCTRINE SHALL DROP AS THE RAIN, MY SPEECH SHALL DISTIL AS THE DEW, AS THE SMALL RAIN UPON THE TENDER HERB, AND AS THE SHOWERS UPON THE GRASS.
Deut. xxxii. 2.
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, SET YOUR HEARTS UNTO ALL THE WORDS WHICH I TESTIFY AMONG YOU THIS DAY, WHICH YE SHALL COMMAND YOUR CHILDREN TO OBSERVE TO DO, ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW. FOR IT IS NOT A VAIN THING FOR YOU; BECAUSE IT IS YOUR LIFE.
Deut. xxxii. 46, 47.