THE

Greek Testament Englished.

ANNOTATED.

BY

WILLIAM BURTON CRICKMER, M.A.,

SAINT EDMUND HALL, OXFORD,

PERPETUAL CURATE IN BEVERLEY MINSTER.

"Ministers of the new Testamentary-covenant, not of the letter
of its text merely, but of the spirit too."

2 COR. iii. 6.

ELLIOT STOCK,

62, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E. C.

1881.

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PREFACE.

THE general reader is especially warned to beware of prejudice in using the following translation, and patiently to study the "Englished" equivalent for the actually Inspired Greek, imagining always that he is face to face with the sacred language in which God's Own Mind is enshrined. The frequent recurrence of "got" is simply the historic tense of an essentially scientific language inductively rendered (Introduction, p. xxviii.)

The theologian is especially warned to beware of what is unworthy a great scholar when responsible before God for scientific analysis of what is new and draws upon the powers of sanctified intellect to the utmost for its working out. It will be absolutely necessary for professional theologians to master the Introduction, and therein accurately Part II., before being in a position to grasp the scope or the details of a perfectly original work.

And all, in all the world, who enter the sacred precincts