Produced by MartinWarddurhamacuk             Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech                       Third Edition 1913                   Public DomainCopy FreelyThese files were produced by keying for use in the Online BibleProofreading was performed by Earl Melton The printed editionused in creating this etext was the Kregal reprint of the ErnestHampdenCook 1912 Third Edition of the edition first publishedin 1909 by J Clarke London  Kregal edition ISBN 0825440254Due to the plans to add the Weymouth footnotes the footnotemarkers have been left in the text and page break indicatorsOther special markings are words surrounded with  to indicateemphasis and phrases surrounded with  to indicate bold OTqoutes  See WEYMOUTHINT in WNTINTZIP for the introductionto the text and information on Weymouths techniquesThe most current corrected files can be found on        Bible Foundation BBS        6027897040 144 kbsIf any errors are found please notify me at the above bbsor at        Mark Fuller        1129 E Loyola Dr        Tempe Az 85282        602 8298542 Corrections to the printed page Introduction says personal pronouns referring to Jesus when spokenby other than the authornarrator are capitalized only when theyrecognize His deity  The following oversights in the third editionwere corrected in subsequent editions  Therefore we feel justifiedin correcting them in this computer versionMt 2216 Capitalized him  Same person speaking as in v15Mt 2754 Capitalized heJoh 2120 Capitalized hisHeb 126  Capitalized last HE referring to God changes made to printed pageLu 1149 Added closing quote at end of verse as later editions doLu 136 come  came changed in later editionsRo 1116 it  if an obvious typesetting error corrected in later editions1Co 116 out  cut an obvious typesetting error corrected in later editionsPhp 43 the Word book in book of Life was not capitalized in        various printings of the third edition but it was in later        editions  So we have capitalized it here2Ti 19  deserts  desserts misspelling perpetuated in later editions no change madeEph 617 did not capitalize word as in Word of God                   PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION        The Translation of the New Testament here offered toEnglishspeaking Christians is a bona fide translation madedirectly from the Greek and is in no sense a revision The planadopted has been the following        1 An earnest endeavour has been made based upon morethan sixty years study of both the Greek and English languagesbesides much further familiarity gained by continual teaching toascertain the exact meaning of every passage not only by thelight that Classical Greek throws on the langruage used but alsoby that which the Septuagint and the Hebrew Scriptures affordaid being sought too from Versions and Commentators ancient andmodern and from the ample _et cetera_ of _apparatus grammaticus_and theological and Classical reviews and magazinesor ratherby means of occasional excursions into this vast prairie        2 The sense thus seeming to have been ascertained thenext step has been to consider how it could be most accuratelyand naturally exhibited in the English of the present day inother words how we can with some approach to probability supposethat the inspired writer himself would have expressed histhoughts had he been writing in our age and country 1        3 Lastly it has been evidently desirable to compare theresults thus attained with the renderings of other scholarsespecially of course witll the Authorized and Revised VersionsBut alas the great majority of even new translations socalled are in reality only Tyndales immortal work alittleoften very litLlemodernized        4 But in the endeavour to find in Twentieth CenturyEnglish a precise equivalent for a Greek word phrase orsentence there are two dangers to be guarded against There are aScylla and a Charybdis On the one hand there is the English ofSociety on the other hand that of the utterly uneducated eachof these _patois_ having also its own special though expressiveborderland which we name slang But all these salient anglesas a professor of fortification might say of our language areforbidden ground to the reverent translator of Holy Scripture        5 But again a _modern_ translationdoes this implythat no words or phrases in any degree antiquated are to beadmitted Not so for great numbers of such words and phrases arestill in constant use To be antiquated is not the same thing asto be obsolete or even obsolescent and without at least a tingeof antiquity it is scarcely possible that there should be thatdignity of style that befits the sacred themes with which theEvangelists and Apostles deal        6 It is plain that this attempt to bring out the senseof the Sacred Writings naturally as well as accurately inpresentday English does not permit except to a limited extentthe method of literal renderingthe _verbo verbum reddere_ atwhich Horace shrugs his shoulders Dr Welldon recently Bishopof Calcutta in the Preface p vii to his masterly translationof the _Nicomachean Ethics_ of Aristotle writes I havedeliberately rejected the principle of trying to translate thesame Greek word by the same word in English and wherecircumstances seemed to call for it I have sometimes used twoEnglish words to represent one word of the Greekand he isperfectly