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Excerpt from Holy Bible: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; And With the Former Translations Diligently I h0pe I have paid due attention to the suggestions and admonitions 'of my kindly critics. I cannot, however, admit that it would have been better to have made use of the Revised rather than of the Authorized Version. If my main object had been accuracy, no doubt I ought to have availed myself of a translation avowedly more exact and accurate than that which was executed by the scholars of King James. But, as my primary aim was literary, it seems to me absurd to prefer a version which has every merit except that it is not literary to one which may conceivably have every defect except that it was written at the most glorious time of our English prose. Such mistakes and confusions as occur are for the most part confined to smaller points, and do not affect the essential characteristics. One critic made the valuable suggestion that I ought to have put the prophets in their proper historical order. And indeed it would have been in many ways better if the books of Amos and Hosea had pre ceded that of Isaiah, as showing the development and affiliation of religious ideas; but if I had once begun to arrange the books of the Old Testament in reference to the historical order of their composition, the Bible would have been turned up side down and presented an aspect utterly confusing to those familiar with its present shape. Against such a reconstruo tion as this, I fear that the accusation of tinkering with Holy Writ would have been urged with much greater point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.