Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Preface and Introductions

Weymouth New Testament in
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Introductions by R F Weymouth

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Title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and
Introductions Third Edition 1913

Author: R F Weymouth
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----------- Corrections to the printed page ---------------------
Introduction says personal pronouns referring to Jesus, when spoken by
other than the author/narrator, are capitalized only when they recognize
His deity. The following oversights in the third edition were corrected
in subsequent editions. Therefore we feel justified in correcting them in
this computer version.
Mt 22:16 Capitalized 'him'. Same person speaking as in v.15. Mt 27:54
Capitalized 'he'. Joh 21:20 Capitalized 'his' Heb 12:6 Capitalized last
'HE' (referring to God).
==== changes made to printed page.
Lu 11:49 Added closing quote at end of verse as later editions do. Lu
13:6 come > came (changed in later editions) Ro 11:16 it > if (an
obvious typesetting error corrected in later editions) 1Co 11:6 out > cut
(an obvious typesetting error corrected in later editions) Php 4:3 the
Word 'book' in 'book of Life' was not capitalized in various printings of
the third edition, but it was in later editions. So we have capitalized it
here.
2Ti 1:9 deserts > desserts (misspelling perpetuated in later editions)
==== no change made:
Eph 6:17 did not capitalize 'word' as in Word of God.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
The Translation of the New Testament here offered to English-speaking
Christians is a bona fide translation made directly from the Greek, and
is in no sense a revision. The plan adopted has been the following.
1. An earnest endeavour has been made (based upon more than sixty
years' study of both the Greek and English languages, besides much
further familiarity gained by continual teaching) to ascertain the exact
meaning of every passage not only by the light that Classical Greek

throws on the langruage used, but also by that which the Septuagint and
the Hebrew Scriptures afford; aid being sought too from Versions and
Commentators ancient and modern, and from the ample et cetera of
apparatus grammaticus and theological and Classical reviews and
magazines--or rather, by means of occasional excursions into this vast
prairie.
2. The sense thus seeming to have been ascertained, the next step has
been to consider how it could be most accurately and naturally
exhibited in the English of the present day; in other words, how we can
with some approach to probability suppose that the inspired writer
himself would have expressed his thoughts, had he been writing in our
age and country. /1
3. Lastly it has been evidently desirable to compare the results thus
attained with the