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John 17: 4-8.
A. 5:
R. 5:
"I glorified Thee on the earth, having
"I have glorified Thee on the earth: I
accomplished the work which Thou hast
have finished the work which Thou gavest
given me to do."
me to do."
"I manifested Thy name unto the men
"I have manifested thy Name unto the
whom Thou gavest me out of the world:
men which Thou gavest me out of the
Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to
world: Thine they were; and Thou
me; and they have kept Thy word."
gavest them me; and they have kept Thy
word."
"Now they know that all things
"Now they have known that all things
whatsoever Thou hast given me are from
whatsoever Thou hast given me, are of
Thee."
Thee."
"For the words which Thou gavest me I
"For I have given unto them the words
have given unto them, and they have
which Thou gavest me, and they have
received them, and knew of a truth that I
received them, and have known surely
came forth from Thee, and they have
that I came out from Thee, and they have
believed that Thou didst send me."
believed that Thou didst send me."
The A.V. rendering of II Cor. 5: 14 by "We thus judge, that if one died for all, then
were all dead" is misleading. "We thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died" of
the R.V. is the truer translation. The A.V. directs attention to their previous death in sin,
the R.V. to their death to sin with Christ. Compare also the following rectifications in the
great doctrinal portion of the epistle to the Romans and elsewhere:--
A. 5:
R. 5:
"For that all sinned" (Rom. 5: 12).
"For that all have sinned."
"We who died to sin" (Rom. 6: 2).
"We that are dead to sin."
"We were buried with Him" (Rom. 6: 4).
"We are buried with Him."
"Our old man was crucified with Him"
"Our old man is crucified with Him."
(Rom.6: 6).
"If we died with Christ" (Rom. 6: 8).
"If we be dead with Christ."
"Ye became obedient" (Rom. 6: 17).
"Ye have obeyed."
"As ye presented" (Rom. 6: 19).
"As ye have yielded."
"As many of you as were baptized into
"As many of you as have been
Christ, did put on Christ" (Gal. 3: 27).
baptized into Christ, have put on
Christ."
"Ye died, and your life is hid with Christ
"Ye are dead, and your life is hid
in God" (Col. 3: 3)
with Christ in God."
"If then ye were raised together with
"If ye then be risen with Christ."
Christ" (Col. 3: 1).
We are not unmindful of the fact that, as the Revisers themselves admit, circumstances
were too strong for them, and many anomalies still exist. We are not advocating an
unquestioning acceptance of the R.V., but we do believe that many earnest students of the
Word (whose knowledge of the original is either scanty or nil) would do well to adopt the
practice of comparing the two versions before coming to any decision.
We hope to give one paper more upon the R.V., but feel that in a series of this
character we have written sufficient on the subject of the verb and its intricate tenses.