 Those who have compared most of the European translations with the original, have not scrupled to say, that the English translation of the Bible, made under the direction of king James the First, is the most accurate and faithful of the whole. Nor," adds...  The Pamphleteer - Page 291edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Missions - 1871 - 792 pages
...whole, King James' is the best of any translation in the world." Dr. Adam Clarke also remarks that those who have compared most of the European translations...translation of the Bible, made under the direction of James the First, is the most accurate and faithful of the whole." How unjust, then, to affirm, as has... | |
 | J. J. Smith - Protestant churches - 1871 - 302 pages
...help regarding his course as being most mischievous, as it is most inexcusable." Dr. Clark says : " Those who have compared most of the European translations...that the English translation of the Bible, made under King James I., is the most accurate and faithful of the whole." The charge that the Protestant Bible... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pages
...testimony of the late Dr. Adam Clarke, whose valuable Commentary is now so easy of access. He says, " Those who have compared most of the European translations...translation of the Bible, made under the direction of James I., is the most accurate and faithful of the whole. Nor is this its only praise ; the translators... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...its general excellence that might be produced, hut one must suffice. Dr. A. Clarke remarks, that " Those who have compared most of the European translations...translation of the Bible, made under the direction of James I., is the most accurate and faithful of the whole. Nor is this its only praise; the translators... | |
 | Nahum Sokolow - Jews - 1919 - 428 pages
...the Bible into our language is a most remarkable event in the history of English literature : . . . Those who have compared most of the European translations...have not scrupled to say that the English translation is the most accurate and faithful of the whole. . . . Besides, our translators have not only made a... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1881 - 654 pages
...ADAM CLARKE, a Methodist preacher, and one of the most learned men of the age, who died in 1832, says: "Those who have compared most of the European translations...James the First, is the most accurate and faithful on the whole. Nor is this its only praise : the translators have seized the very spirit and soul of... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 68 pages
...are indebted for this great work; and this we cannot do better than in the words of a learned divine. "Those who have compared most of the European translations...have not scrupled to say that the English translation is the most accurate and faithful of the whole." Nor is this its only praise : the translators have... | |
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