Memoir Relative to the Progress of the Translations of the Sacred Scriptures, in the Year 1815: Addressed to the Society (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoir Relative to the Progress of the Translations of the Sacred Scriptures, in the Year 1815: Addressed to the Society

The Expense of g1ving a version m each ofthese languages is also far. From being great. Our experience in the work of translating and print ing enables us at this time to judge pretty correctly respecting the ex pense of one of these versions. And we think, that, in general, now types are prepared and all things are ready forthe work, the expense of pun dit' s wages for translating the New Testament, and bringing itthroug'h the press, and that ofprinting a thousand copies, including types, paper, 810. Will be little more than four thousand rupees, or if 500, which sum we think will both secure a version in almost any one of these langua ges, and an edition of a thousand copies; a number sufficient to convey the knowledge ofthe gospel into any one of these provinces, as well as to secure the translation against the possibility of being lost. A second edition of three-or four thousand copies will, of course, come for about a'

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