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" be converted " of the A.V. has been rightly changed into " turn 

 again " by the revisers). A still more flagrant case, if I may 

 say so, is the rendering of Hebrews x, 38, 6 Se St/cato? fxov 



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fjuov ev avT<p( u my just man shall live by [his] faith ; and if lie 

 draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him "). The A.V. 

 translators again were unwilling to assert that anyone who had 

 once been called "just" or "righteous" in the sight of God 

 could ever fall from grace ; and so they boldly interpolated the 

 words any man (" if any man draw back, my soul shall have no 

 pleasure in him "), and made the man who drew back a different 

 person from the righteous man, i.e., they altered the Bible to 

 suit their own views. This has, of course, also been corrected 

 in the K.V. 



We now come to some of the cases of deliberate alteration in 

 the Vulgate. The first instance which meets us is that of 

 Genesis iii, 15 ; there the Clementine edition of 1592 — still the 

 standard edition for the whole Eoman Church — reads : " Inimi- 

 citias ponam inter te et mulierem, et semen tuum et semen 

 illius ; ipsa conteret caput tuum, et tu insidiaberis calcaneo 

 eius " ; " She shall bruise thy head." The honour is here dis- 

 tinctly referred, not to the woman's seed, but to the woman 

 herself, and so the passage has been naturally referred by Eoman 

 Catholic commentators to the Blessed Virgin Mary. But it is a 

 mistranslation. The reference is to the seed of the woman ; it 

 should be ipse, not ipsa. When the alteration was made we 

 cannot tell. Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great 

 apparently read iysa, but the Old Latin version had ipse, and 

 Vercellone gives a long list of writers who have used the correct 

 word, though some of them have been quoted on the other 

 side.* 



Another instance has been brought to our notice since the 

 publication of the E.V. of the Apocrypha in 1895. A striking 

 feature in that revision is the enormous length of the 7th 

 chapter of n Esdras ; it runs to 140 verses. The reason is that 

 more than four columns of print in the E.V. are new to us ; they 

 were not in the A.V. The transition in that version, as 

 Mr. Benslyf pointed out, from the 35th to the 36th verse of 



* Variae Lectiones, I, pp. 12, 13. 



t Missing Fragment of the Fourth Book of Ezra, p. 1. 



