This version was translated and historically arranged,with critical introductions, by G. W. Wade. To meet the needs of the Englishreader new translations of the Old and New Testaments have been produced,distinguished not only by the use of modern speech, but also by their constantreliance on recent important advances in textual criticism, in philology,and in archaeology. To this class of work this volume belongs.

The main body of this book is a translation which deliberatelyfollows a course midway between an exact literal rendering of the originaland a paraphrase intended to bring out the meaning of the writer. Wherea passage is capable of two or more interpretations, Dr. Wade has assumedthe responsibility of a commentator, making plain in his free renderingthe view which he considers to be the more probable. In this way his translationbecomes a running commentary.

The translator includes a table of the probable orderand dates of the New Testament Documents. However, he notes that many ofthe dates are very uncertain.

Thomas Murby (1934)

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