(seq. 27)

(17)

diligence of those who wish to attain an accurate acquaintance
with the Jewish scriptures. With respect to the utility of the
different versions of the New Testament, we shall quote the au-
thority of a late translator, whose learning and veracity can ne-
ver be sufficiently admired and veneration for whose name
will ever remain in our memory. He pretends to illustrated
many difficult and obscure passages by comparing the orien-
tal versions, and assures the laborious student in theology,
that an examination of them will abundantly reward his
intense application.

William Wells

June 1796