By RICHARD WATSON, D.D. F. R.S. LORD BISHOP of LANDAFF, AND REGIUS PROFESSOR of DIVINITY in the UNIVERSITY of Printed for T. EVANS in the Strand, and in the Great Market, Bury St. M.DCC.XCI. A Differtation on the Ancient Verfions of the Bible; fhewing why our English Translation differs fo much from them, and the excellent Use that may be made of them towards attaining the true Readings of the Holy Scriptures in doubtful Places. In a Letter to a Friend. The fecond Edition, prepared for the Prefs by the Author before his Death, and now printed from his own Manufcript. By the late Rev. Dr. THOMAS BRETT. Lond. 1760. P. I. In the Year 1729, Doctor Brett publifhed a Chronological Effay in Defence of the Computation of the Septuagint. In that Tract he obferves, that if the Reader "compares the xivth Pfalm in his Bible, which is tranflated from the Hebrew, with the fame Pfalm in his CommonPrayer-Book, tranflated from the Septuagint, he will find that in his Common-Prayer-Book, there are four whole Verfes more than are in this Bible, viz. ver. 4, 5, 6, 7. Yet these Verses are every one of them cited by St. Paul in the fame Words, Rom. iii. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18." For the clearing up of this and fimilar Difficulties, he wrote, in the fame Year, the Effay which is here republished; the first Edition of it came out in 1742, feveral Years after it had been compofed. It is an excellent Differtation, and cannot fail of being very useful to fuch as have not Leifure or Opportunity to confult Dr. Hody's Book de Bibliorum Textibus; Bifhop Walton's Prolegomena to his Polyglot; Du Pin's Canon of Scripture; Dean Prideaux's Account of the Hebrew Scrip. tures in the 2d Vol. 8vo of the Old and New Teftament connected; the 2d Book of Lamy's Apparatus Biblicus; Lewis' Origines Hebrææ; and other Works of a like Nature. Dr. Owen's Inquiry into the prefent State of the Septuagint Verfion, Lond. 1769, is very deferving of the Reader's Attention. An Hiftorical Account of the feveral English Translations of the Bible, and the Oppofition they met with from the Church of Rome. By ANTHONY JOHNSON, A. M. Lond. 1739. р. бо. In the Preface to Poole's Annotations on the Bible, there is a fhort Account of the English Tranflations of it; and a Tract was printed in London, 1778, intitled, A Lift of various Editions of the Bible, and Parts thereof, in English, from the Year 1 526 to 1776. If the Reader wishes to make a deeper Inquiry into this Subject, he will find full Information, not only with respect to various Tranflations of the Bible into English, but into a great many other Languages, in Mr. Le Long's Bibliotheca Sacra. VOL. III. An |