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But in the new Version no Notice is taken of the j irestrictive Words rtw Idvru, or r iS'ioy. It is jbest, fays the Translator, very coldly, for a Manto have his, Wife y and for a Woman to have herHusband Besides, the Original is preceptive,e^-ny, whereas the new English Version only fayswhat is best ; as if Monogamy was a Point of Jmere Expedience, not of Duty.

III, Heb. xvii. 4. New Version. Marriage is ;every where honourable , and that State is jinnocent.

A very low Account of Marriage, to fay there’sno Hurt . in that State, especially considering thehigh Commendation of it immediately preceding.

No tolerable Writer ever sinks thus at once. Be-sides, the Greek of this Version would have been&j 7 i jyiDt 8 fucLivet. But ctjuh&j/Ti©, always signifiespassively, both in sacred and prophane Authors,

See Wifd. Ch. iii. 13. iv. 2, viii. 20. 2 Mac. xiv,

3 6. xv. 34. Heb. vii. 26. J-am. i. 23. and also‘Plutarch in Pericle. The first of these Passages, (Wifd. iii. 13. comes near to the Sense of the Pas-sage before us, M andesa- <r«£$* >»vx. eyyco fynhu ev m &'. 7 r 1 a>ng.'n. Pleffed is theParr en Wife that is undefiled, who hath mtknown the sinful Ped. The new Version pro-ceeds : Put the Licentious and Adulterers God will nidge. Why not Fornicators, according tothe Greek 7 For all disorderly People are Licen-tious, some of which may yet possibly not beFornicators. When the Vengeance of God isdenounced, as here, against particular Offenders,it is intolerable to use any but fpecifick Terms,