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III.—We will now consider this writer's criticisms and authorities in regard to Leviticus xviii. 18—the passage on which the whole controversy turns. The words of the authorized translation are as follows:—"Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside the other in her life time." Now all the efforts of this writer, and of other writers of the same school, are directed to combat this plain passage of Scripture as given in the authorized translation.

Our first remark is, that this writer's professed rendering of the verse above quoted is self-contradictory. On page 5 he says—"I add a literal rendering of the Hebrew, as it will be useful for reference:" "And a woman to her sister thou shalt not take, to rival, to uncover her nakedness, besides her, in her life time!" But on page 8, to support his theory, he renders this same verse as follows: "And one with the other thou shalt not take, to uncover her nakedness besides her an long as she liveth." In this rendering of the verse the magazine writer leaves out the two important words woman and sister, both of which appear in his first rendering of the verse, which he himself calls "a literal rendering of the Hebrew." When a writer, to support his dogma, can boldly deny in one place that a brother means a brother, and in another place leave out the two important names that determine the whole meaning of the passage, he can do all that Bishop Colenzo has done in the way of reckless criticism, to undermine both the authorized translation and integrity, not only of one book but, of the five books of Moses.

Thus prepared, by the omission of both the words woman and sister in his second rendering of the verse in question, this writer proceeds (p. 6) to what he calls the "Hebrew