Book of the New Covenant of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

A scholarly nineteenth-century rendering of the New Testament, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, this work reflects the early modern development of textual criticism, when comparison of manuscripts and printed editions was reshaping assumptions about the wording of the sacred text. Categorised as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English version, it follows a critical, formal translation philosophy, seeking close correspondence with the underlying Greek. Its distinctive feature is that the translation is presented together with critical argument for the readings adopted and for the translation choices made, so that the reader may weigh the editor's reasoning alongside the resulting text. It belongs to a broader family of individual scholarly translations produced in the period, which circulated chiefly among students of the text rather than in public worship, and which anticipated the revision projects of the later nineteenth century.