An Attempt Towards Revising Our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures; or the New Covenant of Jesus Christ

A major scholarly English New Testament produced at the turn of the nineteenth century, this work covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament. It reflects the critical philosophy of its era, when advances in the study of Greek manuscripts encouraged scholars to reconsider the wording of the received English Bible. Rather than a light correction, it is best classed as a fresh revision or translation, standing in relation to the King James Version and the line of earlier English versions from which that translation descended. Like other private renderings of the period, it was intended chiefly for study rather than for public reading in churches. Among its distinctive features, the work later became the textual base for a controversial Unitarian revision, a circumstance that shaped much of its subsequent reception and gave it a place in the doctrinal debates of the early nineteenth century.