| ~ These few specimens may enable our 
| Peaders to judge in some measure of the 
“work of the right rev. translator. Our 
mits will not allow us to quote many 
other improvements upon the version of 
owth. There'are larger portions in 
Which his critical skill is more apparent, 
d his success of greater importance: 
mong these we mention particularly 
B concluding verses of the third chap- 
he : 
«hae the prayer of Hezekiah, ch. 
tre 
kvui. in the rendering of which, how- 
ever, he acknowledges his obligation to 
eidnis, a German critic. 
“In departing from the version of 
Howth, he has not always displayed the 
same judgment or taste. 
| © Dhus in ch. xxx. 17, Dr. Stock omitted 
\ the term ten thousand, which Lowth has 
| Shewn to be necessary. 
}  * One thousand at the rebuke of one; 
_At the rebuke of five, ten thousand of you 
| _ shall flee: 
Weecxisy to be preferred to 
Dy One thousand at the rebuking of one, 
} At the rebuking of five shall ye flee.” 
«The crown of the cup of recling ; 
ou hast drunken, thou hast swooped off” 
we conceive, no improvement upon 
op Lowth’s rendering-of ch. li. 17. 
The dregs of the cup of trembling, thou 
drunken, thou hast wrung them out:” 
| swooped means to fall like a hawk upon 
\) its prey. 
__ © Twill give them the reward of their work 
with faithfislness:” * 
1 is Lowth’s rendering of ch. lxi. 8. 
t judiciously negiected for 
t be quoted. 
are © drawn into the narrowest 
mpass consistent with usefulness.” In 
se the author “ confines himself very 
ich to the province of a verbal critic, 
aving (as he modestly says) to those 
ho are better qualified for the under- 
ing, the important office of unfolding 
@ Mystical sense cf the prophet, or 
STOCK’S TRANSLATION OF ISAIAH. 
The notes which accompany this ver- 
115 
of shewing the accomplishment of his 
predictions.” The conjectural emen- 
dations, which are suggested or defended 
in these, are frequently judicious, and 
some of them admitted very properly- 
into the text. Ch. i. 8. for IVS3 pressed 
with siege; Dr. Stock would read »9ry3 
pillaged. Ch. xvii. 11. for mp3 pos- 
session, he proposes '9m3 4urry. Ch. 
xxi. 8. for 19 @ dion, he reads MTN, 
“ which denotes a company of persons 
on a road, and was a natural exclama- 
tion for the watchman who descried 
them.” Ch. xxix. 2. for Sps—yy which 
Lowth interprets, as the hearth of the 
great altar; Doederlein and Rosenmuller, 
as a strong lion; Dr. Stock proposes to 
read SN"ND tanquam a Deo decerpius, 
the torn of God. This ingenious reading . 
receives no little support from the ver- 
sion of the Ixx and the Arab.—These 
may serve as specimens. 
Amidst these we wish the bishop of 
Killala had admitted the conjectural 
emendation of Ch. xiv. 12. p’y or 
mew or rather poy for wim which 
Mr. Wakefield long since proposed in 
his edition of Virgil’s Georgics, of 
which the learned translator could not 
be ignorant; and which, without the 
support of the lxx, would recommend 
itself to every person of taste and judg- 
ment. ; 
Before we conclude this article, we 
must be allowed to express our surprize 
that, in this valuable edition of the pro- 
phecy of Isaiah, no notice whatever is 
taken of any of the Varie Lectiones, pub- 
lished by De Rossi. 
- Though all the copies he has collected 
may not have equal authority, there ate 
some readings which present a just claim 
to notice, and from which every editor 
and translator of the sacred text may 
derive considerable assistance. We could 
point out passages, in which Dr. Stock 
might have applied to this useful work 
with much effect. 
Nor do we think that Dodson’s ver- 
sion should have been altogether unno- 
ticed; which, although the work of a 
layman, and undertaken upon a princi- 
ple which can never be fully established, 
is not below the respectful regard of a 
scholar and a prelate. 
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