Note 68 — Chapter VII · THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE. (continued 2)

St. Matthew xxii. 11-13. [See, however, also Luke xiii. 28, where the true meaning obviously is ‘while ye are being cast out.’ There are other obvious mistranslations in our version; such as for instance that of Mark ix. 43, where for ‘the fire that cannot be put out’ we have ‘the fire that never shall be quenched.’ It is to be hoped that the revised version will be such as to give readers ignorant of Greek a thoroughly correct idea of the meaning of the original, most especially on points of such awful importance as this.]