Mace New Testament

The Mace New Testament stands among the earliest English New Testaments to make substantial independent use of textual criticism after the King James Version. Associated with Daniel Mace and belonging to the early eighteenth century, it covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, and is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English text. Its approach may be described as critical, and idiomatic for its period, rendering the Greek in the everyday English of its day rather than in the older biblical idiom then familiar to readers. Among its distinctive features, it departed openly from the received text at points, following instead the readings its translator judged better supported. In doing so it anticipated later English versions that would draw on critical editions of the Greek, though its own reception was limited.