A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek

A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek - Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth

APPEARING before the Public as a translator of the Oracles of God, it would ill become me to deprecate the severity of criticism, when I most cordially desire the intelligent and learned of my brethren to point out my mistakes for correction, and, in love and in the spirit of meekness, to smite me friendly. Should, however, the shafts of malignity, and the weapons not of our warfare, be employed against this humble, yet well-meant, attempt to make the Scriptures better understood, I shall endeavour to pluck the honey-comb from the lions carcase, and be thankful for real information, in whatever mode it may be communicated. Respecting highly, as I do, the translation of our Reformers, whose language has dignity, and whose soundness in the faith I hope, living and dying, to maintain, it must be acknowledgedthat there are in our present version, obscurities which may be avoidedwords become in the lapse of ages obsoleteexpressions feeble and inexactfor which others more accurate and energetic may be substitutedand in some passages the sense embarrassed, and probably mistaken. To make therefore the Scriptures as intelligible as I can to men of common capacity, who are destitute of the knowledge of the Original, and sometimes perhaps to suggest a sense not unworthy the adoption of the judicious scholar, I have endeavoured to render every passage with the most literal exactnessto use the most forcible and clear expressions corresponding with the Originalnot to omit a particlepreserving the participlesand following, as much as the genius of our tongue will permit, the exact order of the Greek words, persuaded that, thus placed, the sense often receives clearness and energy. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31829
Author: Haweis, Thomas
Release Date: Mar 30, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English