Authorised Version

— In this first half of the New Testament for English readers, he gives the text of the Authorised Version so cut up with words and passages in italics, with clauses enclosed within brackets as doubtful, and the words “omit,” “render,” “read,” &c., occur so often, with no explanation beyond the Dean’s ipse dixit, that the English reader—for whom, as wholly ignorant of Greek and criticism, Dr. Alford prepared his work—must either turn aside from it, or think the Version he was taught to venerate a mass of corruption, and the language he ought to follow little else than an uncouth idiom, to be set aside and forgotten. In the latter half of the work, containing the Epistles, the Dean prints the Authorised Version unaltered, and his own Revised version, side by side in parallel columns; an arrangement which is, on the whole, better.