A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . teuch. It was carried on by different hands for several generations,until all the books of the Old Testament, and such of the Apocryphaas were originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, Avere included init. The difficulties of the undertaking were very great. Most ofthe translators were thorough masters of neither of the languagesthey had to deal with, and their task involved the finding of Greekexpressions for ideas which no Greek mind had ever conceived orheard of. The result was unavoidably imperfect, fre
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . teuch. It was carried on by different hands for several generations,until all the books of the Old Testament, and such of the Apocryphaas were originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, Avere included init. The difficulties of the undertaking were very great. Most ofthe translators were thorough masters of neither of the languagesthey had to deal with, and their task involved the finding of Greekexpressions for ideas which no Greek mind had ever conceived orheard of. The result was unavoidably imperfect, frequently obscure,not seldom wholly unintelligible. Yet tliis version shaped thethinking of Greek-speaking Jews and Christians, and through themedium of translations of it, made \vithout reference to the Hebreworiginal, of all Latin Christendom, for ages; and though its powerfulinfluence was not ^vithout its shadow side, it was, upon the w^hole, alioon of priceless value. The revival of learning and the awakeningof the historico-critical spirit may be said to have ended that phase of i. St e3% p^ ? S :i^ jS ri*v f-^ ifc -A *iW t^ ?» rr *-* jT 1^*^ «f^ -J ^ f-* 3l-j* «p^ -^ F^ -*r ^ 4rr An tn *fc 2f O r »e^J i *Ä »Ei~ X **5i^ aV U -Ä ^ I* >CLgJ ^ n >^ i\ 2. a%s s sk-tk« ia-r. 9^ ^^Sf
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