A Commentary on the Revised Version of the New Testament (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Commentary on the Revised Version of the New Testament

To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness.

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Excerpt from A Commentary on the Revised Version of the New Testament

I. It has been my desire in writing this book to provide a companion for the English reader who studies the Revised Version of the New Testament with a view to his edification and instruction. He may use his best endeavours to understand what he reads, and may have a fair knowledge of the Scripture in the original language; yet if he be altogether without guidance he will sometimes fail to discover the reason or the significance of the change that has been made in the Version; and in such cases he will lament his own lack of critical insight, unless indeed he hastily condemns the new reading as a needless disturbance of the old familiar text with which he and his forefathers have been well content. A very few words will generally suffice to make him see that the change was not made "for the sake of change" or out of mere pedantry. He will find that in one place daylight has been let in on a passage which before was dark; that in another place a slightly different shade of meaning has been given to a phrase or word; and remembering what the Holy Scriptures are, that they contain a Divine as well as a human element, and that we know not how intimately the two are blended together, he will not venture to say that a closer approximation to the original, however minute, may safely be neglected.

A work undertaken with such a purpose, while it contains many things that are obvious to the mature Greek scholar, will yet leave much room for the exercise of care and thought on the part of the intelligent readers for whom it is specially intended.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.