The Paragraph Psalter: Arranged for the Use of Choirs (Classic Reprint)

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This is not the place to enter further in detail into the mistakes of the Prayer-book Psalter. It is not perhaps too much to hope that the unquestion able errors of rendering and form may be dealt with by competent authority at no distant period. The question was prepared for Convocation in 1689, and it was proposed by the Commissioners to leave 'wholly to Convocation to consider and determine 'whether the amendment of the reading Psalms (as 'they are called) made by the Bishop of St Asaph '[lloyd] and Dr Kidder or that of the Bible [1611] 'shall be inserted 1n the Prayer-bookl.' If such a rev1sion were undertaken, it should be guided by the spirit of Coverdale. The pree1se and l1teral exactness which is required in a version of Scripture for study is not required in a version for use in public service. For such a purpose the main object must be to secure a plain and rhythmical expression of the sense of the original, even at the sacrifice of the letter; and any one who will com pare the Prayer-book Psalter W1th the original will be able to convince himself that the changes which are needed to remove distinct mistakes could be made without injury to its general character.

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