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BIBLE, KEVISION OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF. 



2871, Rev. Drs. Schaff, Smith, Green, Hare, 

 Krauth, Conant, Day, and Washburn, and Dr. 

 Abbott being present, and letters of regret be- 

 ing received from others unable to attend. 

 Dean Howson, of Chester, was present by in- 

 vitation, and much interest was expressed in 

 the movement. In the evening a large meet- 

 ing of clergymen and laymen was held in Cal- 

 vary Episcopal church, in furtherance of the 

 work, at which addresses were made by Dean 

 Howson and Dr. Schaff. Owing to the need 

 of providing means for meeting the expenses, 

 and other hindrances, the final organization 

 was delayed until Oct. 4, 1872, when a meeting 

 was held, and the two companies fairly entered 

 on their labors, nearly two years after the work 

 was begun in England. Omitting unnecessary 

 details, we give the personnel of the committee 

 as finally constituted. The choice of members 

 had to be determined by the triple considera- 

 tion of scholarship, the different religious bod- 

 ies to be represented, and the facility of their 

 reaching New York, the natural place of meet- 

 ing. 



GENERAL OFFIOEES OF THE COMMITTEE. 

 PHILIP SCHAFF, D. D., LL. D., President. 

 GEORGE E. DAY, D. D., Secretary. 



OLD-TESTAMENT COMPANY. 



Prof. WILLIAM HENRY GREEN, D. D., LL. D. (Chair- 

 man), Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J. 



Prof. GEORGE E. DAY, D. D. (Secretary), Divinity 

 School of Yale College, New Haven, Conn. 



Prof. CHARLES A. AIKEN, D. D., Theological Semi- 

 nary, Princeton, N. J. 



The Rev. TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, D. D., Collegiate 

 Eetbrmed Dutch Church, New York. 



Prof. THOMAS J. CONANT, D. D.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Prof. JOHN DE_WITT, D. D., Theological Seminary, 

 New Brunswick, N. J. 



Prof. GEORGE EMLEN HARE, D. D., LL. D., Divinity 

 School, Philadelphia. 



Prof. CHARLES P. KRAUTH, D. D., LL.D., Vice-Pro- 

 vost of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 

 phia. 



Prof. TAYLER LEWIS, LL. D., Union College, Sche- 

 nectady, N. Y. 



Prof. CHARLES M. MEAD, Ph.D., Theological Semi- 

 nary, Andover, Mass. 



Prof. HOWARD OSGOOD, D. D., Theological Seminary, 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Prof. JOSEPH PACKARD, D. D., Theological Seminary, 

 Alexandria, Va. 



Prof. CALVIN E. STOWE, D. D., Hartford, Conn. 



Prof. JAMES STRONG, S. T. D., Theological Seminary, 

 Madison, N. J. 



Prof. C. A. VAN DYCK, D. D., M.D., Beirut, Syria 

 (Advisory Member on questions of Arabic). 

 NOTE The American Old-Testament Company lost by 



death Prof. TAYLER LEWIS, d. 1877; Dr. KRAUTH, Phila- 

 delphia, d. Jan. 2, 1883 ; and Dr. STOWE, by resignation. 



NEW-TESTAMENT COMPANY. 



Ex-President THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, D. D., LL. D. 

 (Chairman), New Haven, Conn. 



Prof. J. HENRY THAYER, D.D. (Secretary), Theo- 

 logical Seminary, Andover, Mass. 



Prof. EZRA ABBOT, D.D., LL.D., Divinity School, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Eev. JONATHAN K. BURR D.D. , Trenton, N. J. 



Pres. THOMAS CHASE, LL. D., Haverford College Pa 



Chancellor HOWARD CROSBY, D. D. LL D New 

 York. 



Prof TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D., Divinity School of 

 Yale College, New Haven, Conn. 



Prof. JAMES HADLEY, LL. D., Yale College, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Prof. HORATIO B. HACKETT, D. D., LL. D., Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. 



Prof. CHARLES HODGE, D. D., LL.D., Theological 

 Seminary, Princeton, N. J. 



Prof. A. C. KENDRICK, D. D., LL.D., University of 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



The Right Rev. ALFRED LEE, D. D., Bishop of the 

 Diocese of Delaware. 



Prof. MATTHEW B. RIDDLE, D.D., Theological Semi- 

 nary, Hartford, Conn. 



Prof. PHILIP SCHAFF, D. D., LL. D., Union Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, New York. 



Prof. CHARLES SHORT, LL. D. (Secretary), Columbia 

 College, New York. 



Prof. HENRY BOYNTON SMITH, D.D., LL.D., Union 

 Theological Seminary, -New York. 



The Rev. EDWARD A. WASHBURN, D. D., LL. D., Rec- 

 tor of Calvary Church, New York. 



NOTE. The American New-Testament Company lost 

 by death Prof. JAMES HADLEY, d. 1872; Dr. HENBT BOYN- 

 TON SMITH (who attended one session, and resigned from 

 ill health), d. 187? ; Dr. HOBATIO B. HACKETT, d. 1876 ; and 

 Dr. CHARLES HODGE, d. 1878. 



The English committee, having had nearly 

 two years the start of the American, were able 

 to furnish to the latter printed portions of their 

 provisional revision, which with the common 

 version and the original text formed the basis 

 and starting-point of its work. The two com- 

 panies met on the last Friday and Saturday of 

 each month from September to May, in adjoin- 

 ing rooms of the Bible House in New York. A 

 summer meeting of about a week was held in 

 July, usually at New Haven, Andover, or 

 Princeton. The members sat around a table, 

 and, under the guidance of their chairman, 

 discussed freely and fully, verse by verse, the 

 portion assigned for the meeting, which they 

 had had opportunity to examine during the 

 month preceding. Each portion when fin- 

 ished was transmitted in print to the English 

 companies, who made their next examination 

 with the American revision before them, giving 

 to the American suggestions whatever weight 

 they deemed requisite. Their own revision, 

 thus revised, was sent back to the American 

 companies, to be by them re-examined in the 

 light of these results, of which fresh examina- 

 tion the differences being reduced to a mini- 

 mum the results were retransmitted to the 

 English body. The entire Old and New Tes- 

 taments were thus twice carefully gone over, 

 questions of text, interpretation (so far as this 

 was involved), and translation being severally 

 considered ; and, finally, to differences still re- 

 maining unadjusted was given a third exami- 

 nation. The work was thus conducted with a 

 patience and thoroughness befitting its tran- 

 scendently grave character; and, among the 

 numerous criticisms to which it has been sub- 

 jected on both sides of the Atlantic, few ob- 

 jections have probably been raised that had 

 not received in the revising bodies as full a 

 share of candid and scholarly attention as the 

 critics have bestowed upon them. It may be 

 proper here to say that the discussions (re- 

 garding the American companies, we speak 

 from personal knowledge) were conducted with 



