[Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]@TWC D-Link bookColeridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. PART I 7/15
84. The sacred volume of Holy Writ declares that 'true' (pure ?) 'religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world'.
James i.
27 This is now at least, whatever might have been the meaning of the word 'religion' in the time of the Translators, a false version.
St.James is speaking of persons eminently zealous in those public or private acts of worship, which we call divine service, [Greek: thraeskeia].
It should be rendered, 'True worship', &c.
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