The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Published in 1526 Being the First Translation From the Greek Into English (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Published in 1526 Being the First Translation From the Greek Into English<br><br>In the notation of Various Readings from the versions here embraced infra Zineam regard has in the main been had Only to essential differences i. E. To differences in sense to have extended it to particles and phrases except when these had a bearing on the whole texture of the verse would have been tedious to the collator unasked for by readers and encumber ing to the work. The above rule was not indeed rigorously Observed. Even verbal changes deserve a place when curi osity might be amused by the recovery Of some fast-fading word or the ceaseless current of the language illustrated by another in a novel sense. Especially was it the wish that the relative sourcesof the Version in common use might be Obvious to all and words and clauses not Of much moment perhaps but as found in this have been pointed out when they might be traced to either Of the earlier works in particular. Of the class Of various readings there is a considerable number which recur so Often that to avoid their needless repetition it was thought best to give them once for all in a Tabular List with the answering expressions Of Tyndale. This list will be found among the last Of the preliminary pages and the examples in question will not except in a few instances of ac cidental insertion be met with in the margin.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.