BY THE EDITOR.

Hades:

THE GRAVE' IN HADES, OR THE CATACOMBS' OF THE BIBLE AND OF EGYPT:

'SHEOL,' 'BOR, AND HADES' THE CATACOMB.'

With Appendix containing Aristeas's "History of the Septuagint," written 280 years Before Christ.

Cloth boards, red edges. Uniform with the Septuagint.

THE

OLD COVENANT

COMMONLY CALLED

THE OLD TESTAMENT:

TRANSLATED FROM

The Septuagint.

VOL. I.

THE COPY FROM WHICH THIS REPRINT IS MADE WAS "BEQUEATHED TO THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL, BY THE REV. FRANKE PARKER, M.A., RECTOR OF LUFFINCOTT, DEVON, 1883."

Horne says (1846): Very few copies of Mr. Thomson's work have reached England, and even in America it has become very scarce and dear."

Horne also says: "This translation is, upon the whole, faithfully executed;" and he has given some forty pages, from this translation, of quotations from the Septuagint occurring in the New Testament.*

Michaelis, in speaking of the Septuagint (Greek), says: The style is different in the different books; "but of all the books of the Septuagint, the style of the Proverbs is the best, where the translator has clothed the most ingenious thoughts in as neat and elegant language as was ever used by a Pythagorean sage to express his philosophic maxims.” †

Dr. A. Clarke says: The study of this version served more to expand and illuminate my mind than all the theological works I had ever consulted. I had proceeded but a short way in it before I was convinced that the prejudices against it were utterly unfounded, and that it was of incalculable advantage towards a proper understanding of the literal sense of Scripture." +

*"Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures," vol. ii. pp. 282-333; vol. v. p. 303 (1846).

"Introduction to the New Testament," vol. i. pt. i. chap. iv. sec. iii.

‡ Dr. Clarke's "Commentary," vol. i. General Preface, p. xv.

CHARLES THOMSON,

LATE SECRETARY TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

A NEW EDITION

BY

S. F. PELLS.

In publishing this first English Translation of The Septuagint my object is
to call attention to the high estimation in which these Scriptures were once
held in the Christian Church for a thousand years; and in hopes of bringing
about a return to a more Apostolic Faith I have published a work on
"Hades" in conjunction with it.

“ALL THE WORKS OF THE LORD ARE EXCEEDING GOOD, AND WHATSOEVER
HE COMMANDETH SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED IN DUE SEASON.

"AND NONE MAY SAY, WHAT IS THIS? WHEREFORE IS THAT? FOR AT TIME
CONVENIENT THEY SHALL ALL BE SOUGHT OUT....

"ALL THE WORKS OF THE LORD ARE GOOD: AND HE WILL GIVE EVERY
NEEDFUL THING IN DUE SEASON.

"SO THAT A MAN CANNOT SAY, THIS IS WORSE THAN THAT: FOR IN TIME THEY
SHALL ALL BE WELL APPROVED."
-Ecclus. xxxix. 16, 17, 33, 34.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL I.

LONDON:

SKEFFINGTON & SON,

34, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.

Publishers to His Majesty the King.

1904.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.