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VirginiaHuguenot · #3 (**permalink**) 06-27-2008, 09:29 PM

From Matthew Poole's Preface to the Synopsis, Vol. 1 (Gen. 1-9) concerning Bible versions:

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7. The version of Francis Junius and Immanuel Tremellius: which was first produced around 1575, afterwards reviewed by Junius in 1587, which was received with the great applause of the Reformed Churches, as both the unanimous judgments of the clergymen concerning the excellence of it and the often renewed editions of it do sufficiently demonstrate. And although some versions might differ less from the Hebrew in certain passages, indeed some do render the sense more distinctly and elegantly; nevertheless, with all things considered and laid out that are required for an accurate version (namely: similarity with the authentic text reaching even to the very accents, which others for the most part neglect; the sense drawn out with great acumen and rendered with maximum fidelity; the word choices, if not always the most polished, for the most part proper and suitable; the difficult passages most diligently weighed, most learnedly and solidly settled), this version will perhaps claim and win for itself the first rank among equitable judges.