Emphatic Diaglott

The Emphatic Diaglott is an interlinear Greek-English New Testament, prepared in the nineteenth century by Benjamin Wilson, that has been influential in restorationist circles. Classed as an interlinear translation, it covers the New Testament and is rendered from Greek, taking as its base text the Greek New Testament in a form primarily reflecting a Griesbach-era text rather than the Received Text that underlay older English versions. Its translation philosophy combines a literal interlinear rendering with an idiomatic column, and its distinctive feature is precisely this arrangement: the Greek text and an interlinear gloss are paired with a separate English rendering, allowing readers without formal training in Greek to compare a word-for-word gloss against continuous English prose. The format placed it within a wider nineteenth-century movement toward study editions built on newly collated Greek manuscripts, and it has continued to circulate chiefly among restorationist readers who value close access to the underlying text.