| John Wesley New Testament |
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John Wesley made a study of an understandable New Testamentthe key to the knowledge of sound doctrine. Scholarly accuracy, literaryexcellence, and precision in word selection have made the Wesley New Testamentvaluable to the "common and unlettered man" for this purpose.
Wesley's generation was one of transition in forms of speech.Chaucerian English was passing, and modern English was emerging. The EnglishNew Testament had to be "read and digested" by the converts of the WesleyRevival if the results of the movement were to be conserved.
In preparation for his work, he "examined minutely every wordof the New Testament in the original Greek." Thus, his translation containedtwelve thousand deviations in words, sentence structure, and chapter divisionsfrom earlier translations. Two dots in the text indicate the omission of a word(or words) appearing in the King James Version. Italicsindicate a deviation from the King James Version. Traditionalists greatlycriticized his work.
John C. Winston Company (1953)
[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]
In the beginning existed the Word, and the Word was withGod and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All thingswere made by him, and without him was not one single thing made that was made. |
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