7. “To revise the headings of chapters, pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation.”
8. “To refer on the part of each Company, when considered desirable, to Divines, Scholars, and Literary Men, whether at home or abroad, for their opinions.”
To these it was added, that the work of each Company be communicated to the other as it is completed, in order that there may be as little deviation from uniformity in language as possible.
Of the Scholars invited to join the Companies four[107] declined for various reasons, and one[108] was prevented by illness from taking part in the work. The two Companies when formed consisted of the following Members.
THE OLD TESTAMENT COMPANY.
Dr. W. L. Alexander, Professor of Theology in the Congregational Theological Hall, Edinburgh.
Dr. E. H. Browne, Bishop of Ely.[109]
Mr. O. T. Chenery, Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic, Oxford.
Dr. A. B. Davidson, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College, Edinburgh.
Dr. Benjamin Davies, Professor of Hebrew, Baptist College, Regent’s Park.