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To browse Academia. Note thataccordingtoour proposal the number after SH indicatest he volume number tomus ofthe Quaracchi edition-and not the book liber ofthe Summa Halensis. Where it would not lead to confusion, as horthand could be used for furthercitations:. The London Committee, to which the Revision of tlie Authorised Version of the Book of Ecclesiasticus was intrusted, commenced their labours on May 11, , and completed their first revision of the Version on July 20, , and their second and final revision on May 25, The breaking up of the text of the Version into parallelisms was undertaken at a later period.
Of the members of the Committee, two, the Bishops of Salisbury and St. Andrews, found themselves unable through age and distance from London to attend the meetings. The , attendance of the remainder was such that there were rarely less tJian four present. Whenever the number fell below this, all debateable points were reserved for fuller meetings.
Considerable attention was paid to the text ; but the materials available for correcting it were but scanty. In regard to tlie revision of the Version, especial care was taken to preserve the general tone of the Authorised Version, and to maintain the somewhat greater freedom of rendering which characterizes the translation of the Apocryjiha when compared with the translation of the Old or of the New Testament.
The Westminster Committee completed their first revision of the First Book of Maccabees on July 5, their second revision on November 3, With regard to the Greek text they derived great assistance from Dr. Scrivener, but the number of places in which it was thought right to abandon readings that seemed to be represented in the Authorised Vei-sion was not large.
