Other

1. Moon (Revisers’ English, p. 120 ff.) contends that (following the AV) the RV has omitted ‘other’ where it should be, and inserted it where it should not be. Asan example of the former he quotes Mk 4%-™, where the mustard seed is said to be ‘less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,’ a sentence which strictly means that it is less thanitself. For the latter he quotes Mk 1933 ‘ There is none other but he.’ 2. In Old Hugin the plural of ‘ other’ was othre. When this inflexion was dropped there was for a time no distinction between the sing. and the plu. of the word. After a time, however, a new plural was formed by adding s. There are a few examples in AV of the old plu. ‘other,’ viz. Jos 8” ‘The other issued out oe the city against them’; 2Ch 392 «From the hand of all other’; Job 24%, 1 Mac 9, 2 Mac 733, Lk 23%, Jn 1918, 1 Co 1459, Ph 2° 4°. In OT the RV retains ‘other’; in NT itis changed into ‘others’ except Ph 95 which is retained, and 48 which is changed into ‘the rest.’ In 1 Mac 9: RV gives ‘they,’ and omits the word in 2 Mac 7. Examples are in Tindale, Mt 218 ‘ Other cut downe braunches from the trees’; 27 ‘He saved other, him sylfe he can not save’; and from the Rhem. version He 7% ‘And the other in deede were made priestes, being many, because that by death the were prohibited to continue’ ; cf. Ps 7 al. [Pr. Bk.]. 3. The phrase ‘other some,’ formerly very com- mon when ‘some’ preceded, is twice retained in AV, 2 Es 13" ‘Some were glad, some were sorry, some of them were bound, and other some (so RV) brought of them that were offered’ (quidam... quidam... aliqui.. . . aliqui); Ac 17 8 (καὶ τινες ἔλεγον... οἱ δέ, so RV). The archaism is not in ‘other’ but in ‘some,’ which in the sing. was equivalent to ἡ one,’ ‘a certain,’ and so in the plu. meant ‘persons’ or ‘things’ ; hence ‘ other some’ is ‘ other persons’ or ‘things.’ Cf. Mt 13° Rhem. ‘ Othersome also fell upon rockie places, where they had not much earth’; and Eph 4" Rhem. ‘And he gave, some Apostles, and some Prophets, and othersome Evangelists, and othersome pastors and doctors.’ Also in Judgment of Dort, p. 35, ‘The cause of which his divers dis- pensation is not to be imputed to the worthinesse of one nation above another, or to the better using of the light of nature by some then by other some.” J. HASTINGS.