GREAT BIBLE TASK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 9

GREAT BIBLE TASK.

37"YEARS' WORK ON NEW EDl- .''-'. TION' OF' THE REVISED TORSION.

• After thirty-seven years of work,.the enormous task of drawing up full marginal references to the Revised Version bf.tho Now Testament, will .reach completion by the publication from the University Presses shortly of a,.new edition of the revised version—an edition which all clergymen, ministers,' and biblical students in' every corner of; the world will desire/to possess. So : far back as ; December 1873 the New Testament Company of' Revisers requested the late Dr. Scrivener arid Professor Moulton to undertake tho.i'task of compiling the references. The-'work-progressed slowly, however, and in the edition of the Revised Version of 1898 only abridged references were published. Since Professor Moulton's death the entire work of compiling the fuller references' has been carried out by Dr. A. W. Greenup and Dr. J. H. Moulton, son of the professor. ■'. To aid Dr.. Greeiiup in his task'very, large sheets were printed 7with the .Gospel text, in largo type', with very ample margins. On these margins he compiled his list of references.- "One verse may. have taken mo ten years to complete," said-the doctor, "by my returning to it again and again. It was extremely trying;. .at.one period' my' eyes•gave;;way,..'aiid,;J(ih'ad to,'cease/ work for a"-time.'".,'', :-,,,, ,X... ;' K,-&- : .'t