This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...such an anomaly as this would seem one of the first and most obvious of the duties to which the Revisers were called; and if, as is clear, they could not have substituted the word "Ghost" for "Spirit" in the case of such expressions as "walking by or after the Spirit" (Gal. v. 16; Rom. viii. 4), "fellowship of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...such an anomaly as this would seem one of the first and most obvious of the duties to which the Revisers were called; and if, as is clear, they could not have substituted the word "Ghost" for "Spirit" in the case of such expressions as "walking by or after the Spirit" (Gal. v. 16; Rom. viii. 4), "fellowship of the Spirit" (Phil, ii. 1), "grieve not the Holy Spirit of God" (Eph. iv. 30), to say nothing of the cases where the reference is to the "spirit" of man, they had no alternative but to adopt the converse course, and to employ throughout the rendering--to which there could be no rational objection either on exegetical or other grounds--"the Holy Spirit." It seems strange that they should not have made this change of their own motion; but more strange that they should have declined to comply with it when suggested by their American associates, who had the candour and the courage to say: "For 'Holy Ghost' adopt uniformly the rendering 'Holy Spirit."'1 That a great oppOr 1 It is difficult to see on what principle the Eevisers abstained from accepting most of the suggestions of the America 242 AMEEICAN EEVISION tunity of redressing an imperfection and of reproducing for the English reader the irvevfia of the original was thus missed, can only be accounted for by supposing that the reverence for a liturgical formula and its hallowed associations outweighed can Company, especially those applying to "classes of passages." I ventured to comment on some of these cases in a letter to the Editor of the Academy, July 9,1881. Few who have an opportunity of looking into the American Revised Version will fail to see in it a great improvement as compared with its English prototype...
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Add this copy of St. Paul's Use of the Terms Flesh and Spirit. Baird to cart. $51.42, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by RareBooksClub. com.
