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XV. i Th ess. v. 7. St. Paul exhorts Christians

to Watchfulness and Sobriety from thisConsideratition, that they belong to anInstitution, in which is no Night norDarkness , which are the only properSeasons for the Practice of the contraryDeeds. They that JJeep , fays he, Jleepin the Nights and they that are drunken>are drunken in the Night.

The Translator not entring into the Apostle’sArgument, gives us the following poor Rendition.They that are sober take their Rest in the Night,while they that are Sots are drunken in the Night.

XVI. zPet. ii. 13. The Apostle describing a

very sensual abandoned Sort of Men,says of them, That they count it a‘Pleasure to riot in the Day-time.

For so our Bible Translation well expresses theGreek , 'HiW&u ^yvfjenoi tIw cv {ijxigct 'Tovfp-riy.This was then esteemed a very high Degree ofImmodesty. Such as had any Shame revelled inthe Night. But our Translator goes off from theplain Words and Intention of the Original, to oneentirely his own, viz. They place their Felicityin daily Pleasure.

In these Instances the Sense of the Sacred Wri-ters is so clear, that our Interpreter must haveerr’d by Design ; unless we suppose him entirelyignorant of the Language from which he pretendsto translate. But there are other erroneous Ver-sions of which little Doubt is to be made, but they

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