New Literal Translation from the Original Greek of All the Apostolical Epistles

An influential translation of and commentary on the apostolic epistles, the work of the Scottish minister and biblical scholar James MacKnight. Its scope is the New Testament Epistles, translated from Greek and taking the Greek Epistles as its base text. MacKnight's approach is analytical and explanatory, and the work belongs to the category of a fresh translation accompanied by commentary, a form that gained currency among eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholars seeking to clarify the sense of the apostolic letters for readers accustomed to older English versions. Among its distinctive features are the substantial explanatory material it includes and the fact that the translated text is separable from the commentary, allowing the rendering to be read or reprinted on its own. It was consulted widely in the English-speaking world and found a particular readership among later movements that emphasised close study of the epistolary writings.