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IN THE MAKING OF

THE ENGLISH BIBLE

BY JAMES G. CARLETON, D.D.

ASSISTANT LECTURER IN DIVINITY, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN
AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE OF OUR LORD AND HIS APOSTLES'

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1902

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PREFACE

IN constructing the Tables which form the groundwork of this Treatise, my task has been lightened by the facilities for the comparison of versions of the New Testament afforded by two works-one of the seventeenth, the other of the nineteenth century. I refer to Fulke's Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, &c., 1601, in which the Version of Rheims and the Bishops' Bible are printed side by side; and to The English Hexapla, Bagster, 1841, in which the Authorized and five earlier versions-all, with the exception of Wickliffe's, pertinent to this inquiry -appear in parallel columns.

In this latter work the Rhemish version again finds a place; but, strange to say, the Bishops' Bible-the most abundant of the sources of the Authorized version—is not included. Another version of primary importance, the Genevan, is also left out: for by a curious blunder, calculated to mislead the unwary student, in the column headed 'Geneva,' Whittingham's New Testament of 1557 has been printed.

A complete enumeration of versions and editions of versions consulted by me will be found in Chapter II. For the history of the versions (Chapter I) I have drawn materials mainly from the following works :— Lewis, History of the English Translations of the Bible, third edition, 1818; Anderson, The Annals of the

English Bible, 1845; Westcott, A General View of the History of the English Bible, 1868; Eadie, The English Bible, 1876; Fry, The Editions of the New Testament, Tyndale's Version, 1878, and The Bible by Coverdale, 1867; Cotton, Editions of the Bible in English, 1852.

For the Rheims version my chief authorities have been, The Preface to the version; The First and Second Diaries of the English College, Douay, and an Appendix of unpublished Documents; with an Historical Introduction by Thomas Francis Knox, D.D., 1878, forming Vol. I of Records of the English Catholics; Letters and Memorials of Cardinal Allen, 1882, being Vol. II of the same series; Dodd, The Church History of England, 1737–42 ; Cotton, Rhemes and Doway, 1855. Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, edition of 1813, has supplied biographical details of the Rhemish translators.

As the Textus Receptus mainly underlies the Authorized Version, the Greek is quoted according to it, except when otherwise stated.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, 1902.

J. G. C.

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