Revised Version

A marginal note of the Revised Version says, “The Hebrew text has, ‘Saul was a year old.’

The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

He there supplied the Methodist preachers with many of the most valuable improvements made in the Revised Version, a hundred years before the time.

In the preparation of the Revised Version of 1885 the American scholars proposed more radical changes than the English revisers would admit.

The quotations in the present volume are from the Revised Version, the comparatively greater accuracy of its translations being important for a correct understanding of many of the passages considered.