TALBOT10044

London 16 March 1833

My Dear Mother

I beg that Winifred Hyland's ^<1> letter may not be sent to me.

I have no objection to your turning the walk in the Orchard.

I never could have said to Caroline that the Bible was perfectly well translated, as many passages in the Old Testament are now understood by the labours of the learned, which were unintelligible in the days of King James I.

The New Testament is a far more perfect translation the Greek language being much easier than Hebrew and much less liable to ambiguity. Indeed Greek is a very perspicuous language. But there are some faults of translation that considerably affect the sense even in the New Testament as for instance when it is translated that Christ thought it not robbery to be equal with God, which is a Greek phrase implying that in his humility he did not assert his own dignity as much as he was entitled to do. Whereas English readers understand from our translation exactly the obverse.

Yours affect
Henry