Trench Epistles

The Trench Epistles GWC is a rare early twentieth-century English rendering of the epistles, preserved as a distinct work within modern translation corpora. Its scope is limited to the New Testament epistles and is therefore partial, covering the letters attributed to Paul and the other apostolic writers rather than the whole biblical canon. For its translation philosophy, readers are directed to the project documentation; the work is categorised as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English version. It belongs to a broad tradition of independently produced English New Testament translations that proliferated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when individual scholars and clergy frequently issued their own versions of particular books or groups of books. Among its distinctive features, it is included as a completeness backstop for coverage of the English translation and revision families, ensuring that lesser-known partial versions remain represented.