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verb to harden in the above text is, in other parts 

 of the Bible, translated, to grieve or to trouble; 

 and that, in his opinion, the construction of the 

 sentence requires one of those words. 



" In several parts of the English Bible," conti- 

 nued my uncle, " shall is put in the place of will. 

 For instance, in Exodus ix. 4. ' And the Lord 

 shall sev 7 er between the cattle," where the sense 

 evidently requires will; and thus, ch. vii. 4, and 

 xi. 9, ' Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you,' 

 should undoubtedly be rendered ' Pharaoh will 

 not hearken unto you.' This agrees exactly 

 with the principle I have already mentioned, 

 that verbs active sometimes signify permission." 



My uncle mentioned several other instances 

 of this confusion between shall, which seems to 

 ordain, and will t which only foretels. And he 

 added, " There are several of these minor faults 

 and mistakes in our translation, which make it 

 very important that we should never judge of 

 detached passages, but that we should compare 

 different parts of the Bible together, in order 

 that they may throw light upon each other." 



2lst. I forgot to tell you in the right part of 

 my journal, that in preparing my carnation beds, 

 the gardener observed a great number of those 

 wire-worms, which are so destructive to all the 

 pink tribe. I recollected that Mr. Biggs said 

 that salt destroyed them, but that it was difficult 



