{"id":2307,"date":"2018-08-17T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/37-anthony-purver\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:40","slug":"37-anthony-purver","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/37-anthony-purver\/","title":{"raw":"37. <i>Anthony Purver<\/i>,","rendered":"37. <i>Anthony Purver<\/i>,"},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/75\" target=\"new\">57<\/a><\/span> <p>a poor Quaker carpenter, conceived that the spirit impelled him to translate the Bible. He accordingly learnt Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and published a literal version of the Old and New Testament in two vols. folio, 1764.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/76\" target=\"new\">58<\/a><\/span>This book is curious for its Hebrew idioms. By adhering to these, Anthony has in some rare instances excelled the common version; but when he alters only for the sake of alteration, he makes miserable work. E. g. A <i>hind let go may exhibit genteel Naphtali; he gives fine words\u2014<\/i> for, \"Naphtaii is a hind let loose; he giveth goodly words.\"<\/p>\n<p><i>I am he who am<\/i>, is better than <i>I am that I am<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He calls the Song of Solomon, the Poem of Solomon; <i>\"Song<\/i>, (he says) <i>being of profane use\"<\/i><\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/75\" target=\"new\">57<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>a poor Quaker carpenter, conceived that the spirit impelled him to translate the Bible. He accordingly learnt Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and published a literal version of the Old and New Testament in two vols. folio, 1764.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/76\" target=\"new\">58<\/a><\/span>This book is curious for its Hebrew idioms. By adhering to these, Anthony has in some rare instances excelled the common version; but when he alters only for the sake of alteration, he makes miserable work. E. g. A <i>hind let go may exhibit genteel Naphtali; he gives fine words\u2014<\/i> for, &#8220;Naphtaii is a hind let loose; he giveth goodly words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>I am he who am<\/i>, is better than <i>I am that I am<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He calls the Song of Solomon, the Poem of Solomon; <i>&#8220;Song<\/i>, (he says) <i>being of profane use&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":37,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2307","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2307\/revisions\/2308"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2307\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}